1. Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.
2. Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.
3. For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for it is a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;
4. they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5. They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6. There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8. But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
9. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful men.