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The Message About Idols

18 “An idol does no good, because a man made it.
    It is only a statue that teaches lies.
The person who made it expects his own work to help him.
    But it can’t even speak!
19 How terrible it will be for the nation that says to a wooden statue, ‘Come to life!’
    How terrible it will be when this nation says to a stone that cannot speak, ‘Get up!’
These things cannot tell them what to do.
    That idol is only a statue covered with gold and silver.
    There is no life in it.
20 The Lord is in his Holy Temple.
    So all the earth should be silent in his presence.”

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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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