16. You will be filled with shame instead of glory.You yourself—drink and show your uncircumcision!The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you,and utter shame will come on your glory!
17. The violence done to Lebanon will cover you,as will the plunder of beasts that terrified them,because of the bloodshed of men and violence of the land,of the cities and all who live in them.
18. What profit is a carved image when its maker has carved it,a cast image, and a teacher of lies,that its maker trusts in what he has shapedwhen he makes mute idols?
19. Woe to him who says to the wood, “Awake!”To the silent stone, “Arise!” Can it teach?It is overlaid with gold and silver,and there is no breath at all in it.
20. But the Lord is in His holy temple.Let all the earth keep silence before Him.