1. Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel.
2. Thus says the Lord:“Learn not the way of the nations,nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavensbecause the nations are dismayed at them,
3. for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut downand worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nailsso that it cannot move.
5. Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,and they cannot speak; they have to be carried,for they cannot walk.Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil,neither is it in them to do good.”