For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of
You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their th
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pra
And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shoutin
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make thems
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own cr
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed wort
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?