1. Listen to the word that the Lord has spoken concerning you, O house of Israel.
2. Thus says the Lord: "Do not choose to learn according to the ways of the Gentiles. And do not be willing to dread the signs of heaven, which the Gentiles fear.
3. For the laws of the people are empty. For the work of the hand of the craftsman has cut a tree from the forest with an axe.
4. He has adorned it with silver and gold. He has put it together with nail and hammer, so that it will not fall apart.
5. They have been fabricated in the likeness of a palm tree, and they will not speak. They must be carried to be moved, because they do not have the ability to walk. Therefore, do not be willing to fear them, for they can do neither evil nor good."
6. O Lord, there is nothing similar to you. You are great, and your name is great in strength.