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18 “What (A)profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,
Or a molten image, a (B)teacher of [a]lies?
For its maker (C)trusts in his own making
When he fashions speechless idols.
19 Woe to him who (D)says to a piece of wood, ‘(E)Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with (F)gold and silver,
And there is (G)no breath at all inside it.
20 But (H)Yahweh is in His holy temple.
[b]Let all the earth (I)be silent before Him.”

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:18 Lit a lie
  2. Habakkuk 2:20 Lit Hush before Him, all the earth