1. Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel.
2. This is what the Lord says:‘Do not learn the ways of the nationsor be terrified by signs in the heavens,though the nations are terrified by them.
3. For the practices of the peoples are worthless;they cut a tree out of the forest,and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4. They adorn it with silver and gold;they fasten it with hammer and nailsso that it will not totter.
5. Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,their idols cannot speak;they must be carriedbecause they cannot walk.Do not fear them;they can do no harmnor can they do any good.’