Yesaya 41:29

41:29 Look, all of them are nothing, ¹ 

their accomplishments are nonexistent;

their metal images lack any real substance. ² 

Yesaya 44:9

44:9 All who form idols are nothing;

the things in which they delight are worthless.

Their witnesses cannot see;

they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

[41:29]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text has אָוֶן (’aven, “deception,” i.e., “false”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has אין (“nothing”), which forms a better parallel with אֶפֶס (’efes, “nothing”) in the next line. See also 40:17 and 41:12.

[41:29]  ² tn Heb “their statues are wind and nothing”; NASB “wind and emptiness”; NIV “wind and confusion.”