2. Thus says Yahweh: “You must not learn the way of the nations, and you must not be dismayed by the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed by them.
3. For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, for it is a tree cut down from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with the tool.
4. He decorates it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers, so that it does not stagger.
5. They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, they cannot speak. Indeed, they must be carried, for they cannot march. You must not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil; furthermore, to do good is not in them.”
6. There is none like you, O Yahweh, you are great and your name is great in might.
7. Who would not revere you, O king of the nations? For you it is fitting. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like you.
8. At the same time they are stupid and foolish, in the instruction of idols, it is wood.
9. Silver beaten from Tarshish is brought, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and the hands of the goldsmith. Blue and purple are their clothing, all of them are the work of skillful people.
10. But Yahweh is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king. Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his anger.
11. “Thus you shall say to them, ‘Gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.
12. He is the maker of the earth by his power, who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out heaven.