Jeremiah 10:3–5

3  For the * ccustoms of the people are vain:

For done cutteth a tree out of the forest,

The work of the hands of the workman, ewith the axe.

4  fThey deck it with silver and with gold;

gThey fasten it with nails and with hammers, ghthat it move not.

5  They are iupright as kthe palm tree, lbut speak not:

mThey must needs be borne, because they cannot go.

Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil,

nNeither also is it in them to do good.