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.
10. But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.
11. Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
12. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
13. When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
14. Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15. They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16. The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
17. Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.
18. For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.
19. Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is my grief, and I will bear it.