who produce a divine image of wood plated with metal. The tone throughout is one of sarcasm and ridicule, and at times it is labored. In vs. 13 the prophet seems deliberately to reverse the process of Gen 1:26–27; God made man in his image and likeness, and now deluded man makes God in his image. The image was rigorously prohibited in the Decalogue (Exod 20:4; Deut 5:3), for Yahweh is like nothing in heaven, on earth, or beneath the earth. The makers of images have no god. The polemic fails somewhat