12. The blacksmith takes a tooland works with it in the coals;he shapes an idol with hammers,he forges it with the might of his arm.He gets hungry and loses his strength;he drinks no water and grows faint.
13. The carpenter measures with a lineand makes an outline with a marker;he roughs it out with chiselsand marks it with compasses.He shapes it in human form,human form in all its glory,that it may dwell in a shrine.
14. He cut down cedars,or perhaps took a cypress or oak.He let it grow among the trees of the forest,or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.