Jeremiah 10:3–10

³For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe, ⁴With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it doth not stumble. ⁵As a palm they are stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them. ⁶Because there is none like Thee, O Jehovah, Great art Thou, and great Thy name in might. ⁷Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee. ⁸And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself. ⁹Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple is their clothing, Work of the skilful—all of them. ¹⁰And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.