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Idolatry Is Foolish

18 What is an idol worth?
    It's merely a false god.
Why trust a speechless image
made from wood or metal
    by human hands?
19 What can you learn from idols
covered with silver or gold?
    They can't even breathe.
Pity anyone who says to an idol
of wood or stone,
    “Get up and do something!”

20 Let all the world be silent—
the Lord is present
    in his holy temple.

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18 “Of what value(A) is an idol(B) carved by a craftsman?
    Or an image(C) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
    he makes idols that cannot speak.(D)
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
    Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’(E)
Can it give guidance?
    It is covered with gold and silver;(F)
    there is no breath in it.”(G)

20 The Lord is in his holy temple;(H)
    let all the earth be silent(I) before him.

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