Verse 17
The leftover piece becomes the idol. How can what is the result of human effort and care, an idol, put forth any effort and care for its builder? Worshipping and praying to a graven image is absurd (cf. Matthew 6:7-8).
"Diagoras of Melos, a pupil of Democritus, once threw a wooden standing figure of Hercules into the fire, and said jocularly, ’Come now, Hercules, perform thy thirteenth labor, and help me to cook the turnips.’" [Note: Delitzsch, 2:211.]
"John Knox, in decrying the idolatry of the Mass, parodied this passage with devastating effect: ’With part of the flour you make bread to eat, with the residue you fashion a god to fall down before’." [Note: Archer, p. 640.]
Isaiah concluded his exposé of paganism by highlighting the blindness of idol worshippers.
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