1. Hear you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2. Thus says the LORD,
3. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it moves not.
5. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.