Jeremiah 10:3–10

³For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.

⁴He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.

⁵They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.

⁶There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is thy name in might.

⁷Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee.

⁸They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

⁹Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.

¹⁰But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.