8. They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.
9. Silver is beaten into plates; it is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the smith; draped in blue and purple; all of them are the work of skilled ones.
10. But יהוה is truly Elohim. He is the living Elohim and the everlasting Sovereign. At His wrath the earth shakes, and nations are unable to stand His displeasure.
11. Say to them this, “The elah that did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
12. He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
13. When He makes His voice heard, there is a roaring of waters in the heavens. And He makes vapours rise from the ends of the earth. The lightnings for rain He has made, and brings wind from His treasuries.
14. Everyone is brutish in knowledge; every smith is put to shame by his idol. For his moulded image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.
15. They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they perish.
16. The Portion of Ya‛aqoḇ is not like these, for He is the Maker of all, and Yisra’ĕl is the tribe of His inheritance – יהוה of hosts is His Name.
17. Gather up your bundle from the ground, you who live under siege!
18. For thus said יהוה, “See, at this time I am hurling out the inhabitants of the land, and shall distress them, so that they feel it.”
19. Woe to me for my breaking! My wound is grievous, but I say, “This is my sickness, and I bear it.
20. “My tent has been ravaged, and all my cords have been broken. My children have gone from me, and they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent any more, or to set up my curtains.
21. For the shepherds have become brutish, and they have not sought יהוה. Therefore they did not understand, and all their flock scattered.”