Isaías 44:19

19 La persona que hizo el ídolo nunca se detiene a reflexionar:
«¡Vaya, es solo un pedazo de madera!
Quemé la mitad para tener calor
y la usé para cocer el pan y asar la carne.
¿Cómo es posible que lo que queda sea un dios?
¿Acaso debo inclinarme a rendir culto a un pedazo de madera?».

Isaías 44:19 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 44:19

And none considereth in his heart
Or, "and he does not return it to his heart" ^F11; he does not come to himself again, or return to his right mind, but lives and dies under the infatuation; never once revolving it in his mind, pondering within himself what he has done, or is doing, whether right or wrong: neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say;
within himself, and reason the matter in his own mind, and thus express himself: I have burnt part of it in the fire;
to warm myself with: yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof;
both heated the oven, and baked bread with it; and also upon the live coals have laid kneaded dough, and baked a cake on them: and I have roasted flesh, and eaten it;
made a fire with another part of it, and roasted meat at it, and ate it with great pleasure and satisfaction: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination?
an idol, which is an abominable thing to God, and to all men of sense and goodness: shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
or "the bud of a tree?" ^F12 or that which is made out of a tree of my own planting, cutting down, and hewing, part of which has been used to the above purposes; and the remaining lifeless log, shall I worship it as a god? and yet, though such reasoning might be justly expected from a man that is a reasonable creature, sottish are idolaters, that they seem to be quite deprived of their rational powers, or at least these are disused by them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (wbl la byvy alw) "et non reducet ad cor suum", Pagninus, Montanus; "reducit", Piscator.
F12 (Ue lwbl) "ante id quod provenit ex abore", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "germen ligni", Forerius.

Isaías 44:19 In-Context

17 Luego toma lo que queda
y hace su dios: ¡un ídolo tallado!
Cae de rodillas ante el ídolo,
le rinde culto y le reza.
«¡Rescátame! —le dice—,
¡tú eres mi dios!».

18 ¡Cuánta estupidez y cuánta ignorancia!
Tienen los ojos cerrados y no pueden ver;
tienen la mente cerrada y no pueden pensar.

19 La persona que hizo el ídolo nunca se detiene a reflexionar:
«¡Vaya, es solo un pedazo de madera!
Quemé la mitad para tener calor
y la usé para cocer el pan y asar la carne.
¿Cómo es posible que lo que queda sea un dios?
¿Acaso debo inclinarme a rendir culto a un pedazo de madera?».

20 El pobre iluso se alimenta de cenizas;
confía en algo que no puede ayudarlo en absoluto.
Sin embargo, no es capaz de preguntarse:
«Este ídolo que tengo en la mano, ¿no será una mentira?».

21 Restauración de Jerusalén
«Presta atención, oh Jacob,
porque tú eres mi siervo, oh Israel.
Yo, el Señor
, te hice
y no te olvidaré.