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18 What profit is a carved image when its maker has carved it,
    a cast image, and a teacher of lies,
that its maker trusts in what he has shaped
    when he makes mute idols?
19 Woe to him who says to the wood, “Awake!”
    To the silent stone, “Arise!” Can it teach?
It is overlaid with gold and silver,
    and there is no breath at all in it.

20 But the Lord is in His holy temple.
    Let all the earth keep silence before Him.

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