²⁰ Do people make their own gods?
    Yes, but they are not gods!”^(A)

¹⁹ Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
    Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’^(A)
Can it give guidance?
    It is covered with gold and silver;^(B)
    there is no breath in it.”^(C)

⁶ Some pour out gold from their bags
    and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith^(A) to make it into a god,
    and they bow down and worship it.^(B)

¹⁹ As for an idol,^(A) a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith^(B) overlays it with gold^(C)
    and fashions silver chains for it.
²⁰ A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood^(D) that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol^(E) that will not topple.^(F)

²¹ Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(G)
Has it not been told^(H) you from the beginning?^(I)
    Have you not understood^(J) since the earth was founded?^(K)
22 He sits enthroned^(L) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(M)
He stretches out the heavens^(N) like a canopy,^(O)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(P) to live in.^(Q)
23 He brings princes^(R) to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.^(S)
24 No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(T) in the ground,
than he blows^(U) on them and they wither,^(V)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(W)

²⁵ “To whom will you compare me?^(X)
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.^(Y)
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:^(Z)
    Who created^(AA) all these?
He who brings out the starry host^(AB) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,^(AC)
    not one of them is missing.^(AD)

²⁷ Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?^(AE)
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(AF)
The Lord is the everlasting^(AG) God,
    the Creator^(AH) of the ends of the earth.^(AI)
He will not grow tired or weary,^(AJ)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.^(AK)
29 He gives strength^(AL) to the weary^(AM)
    and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men^(AN) stumble and fall;^(AO)
31 but those who hope^(AP) in the Lord
    will renew their strength.^(AQ)
They will soar on wings like eagles;^(AR)
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.^(AS)

²⁰ In that day^(A) people will throw away
    to the moles and bats^(B)
their idols of silver and idols of gold,^(C)
    which they made to worship.^(D)