Isaiah 44:9–15

⁹All who make idols^m are nothing,

and the things they treasure are worthless.ⁿ

Those who would speak up for them are blind;^o

they are ignorant, to their own shame.^p

¹⁰Who shapes a god and casts an idol,^q

which can profit nothing?^r

¹¹People who do that will be put to shame;^s

such craftsmen are only human beings.

Let them all come together and take their stand;

they will be brought down to terror and shame.^t

¹²The blacksmith^u takes a tool

and works with it in the coals;

he shapes an idol with hammers,

he forges it with the might of his arm.^v

He gets hungry and loses his strength;

he drinks no water and grows faint.^w

¹³The carpenter^x measures with a line

and makes an outline with a marker;

he roughs it out with chisels

and marks it with compasses.

He shapes it in human form,^y

human form in all its glory,

that it may dwell in a shrine.^z

¹⁴He cut down cedars,

or perhaps took a cypress or oak.

He let it grow among the trees of the forest,

or planted a pine,^a and the rain made it grow.

¹⁵It is used as fuel^b for burning;

some of it he takes and warms himself,

he kindles a fire and bakes bread.

But he also fashions a god and worships^c it;

he makes an idol and bows^d down to it.