1. Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O house of Israel.
2. Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear:
3. For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.
4. He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.
5. They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore, fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.
6. There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great and great is thy name in might.
7. Who shall fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee.
8. They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.
9. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.