1 possess you
5when you see the multitude before and behind them worshiping them. But say in your heart, “It is you, O Lord, whom we must worship.”
6 take gold and make crowns for the heads of their gods, as they might for a young woman who loves ornaments.
9Sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it on themselves
10 out with garments like humans—these gods of silver and gold and wood
11 When they have been dressed in purple robes,
12 can see none of them.
19 just like a beam of the temple, but their hearts, it is said, are eaten away when crawling creatures from the earth devour them and their robes. They do not notice
20when their faces have been blackened by the smoke of the temple.
21Bats, swallows, and birds alight on their bodies and heads, and so do cats.
22 will not shine unless someone wipes off the tarnish, for even when they were being cast, they did not feel it.
24 to the ground, they themselves must pick it up. If anyone sets it upright, it cannot move itself, and if it is tipped over, it cannot straighten itself. Gifts are placed before them just as before the dead.
27 and use the money themselves. Likewise their wives preserve some of the meat with salt but give none to the poor or helpless.
28 to clothe their wives and children.
33 were able to understand!
40Yet they themselves cannot perceive this and abandon them, for they have no sense.
41 is false. Why then must anyone think that they are gods or call them gods?
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48How then can one fail to see that these are not gods, for they cannot save themselves from war or calamity?
49 will be burned up like timbers.
55 are not to be compared with them in appearance or power.
63 that rot upon them you will know that they are not gods, and they will finally be consumed themselves and be a reproach in the land.
72Better, therefore, is someone upright who has no idols; such a person will be far above reproach.
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