17. You cut down the forests of Lebanon.Now you will be cut down.You destroyed the wild animals,so now their terror will be yours.You committed murder throughout the countrysideand filled the towns with violence.
18. “What good is an idol carved by man,or a cast image that deceives you?How foolish to trust in your own creation—a god that can’t even talk!
19. What sorrow awaits you who say to wooden idols,‘Wake up and save us!’To speechless stone images you say,‘Rise up and teach us!’Can an idol tell you what to do?They may be overlaid with gold and silver,but they are lifeless inside.
20. But the lord is in his holy Temple.Let all the earth be silent before him.”