1. Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2. thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
3. For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
4. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5. They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
6. There is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7. Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.
8. But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.