The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the ha
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselv
He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These,
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and h