Jeremiah 10:3–10

³For the customs of the peoples are false:

a tree from the forest is cut down

and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;^*

⁴they deck it with silver and gold;

they fasten it with hammers and nails

so that it cannot move.^*

⁵Their idolsⁿ are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,

and they cannot speak;

they have to be carried,

for they cannot walk.

Do not be afraid of them,

for they cannot do evil,

nor is it in them to do good.^*

⁶There is none like you, O Lord;

you are great, and your name is great in might.^*

⁷Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?

For that is your due;

among all the wise ones of the nations

and in all their kingdoms

there is no one like you.^*

⁸They are both stupid and foolish;

the instruction given by idols

is no better than wood!^o*

⁹Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish

and gold from Uphaz.

They are the work of the artisan and of the hands of the goldsmith;

their clothing is blue and purple;

they are all the product of skilled workers.^*

¹⁰But the Lord is the true God;

he is the living God and the everlasting King.

At his wrath the earth quakes,

and the nations cannot endure his indignation.^p*