^28 (A)And there you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, ^(B)wood and stone, ^(C)which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

¹⁰ Who has formed a god or cast a graven image to ^(A)no profit? ¹¹ Behold, all his companions will be ^(B)put to shame. The craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them be in dread, let them together be put to shame.

¹² The ^(C)man crafts iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, ^[a]forming it with hammers and working it with his powerful arm. He also gets hungry and has no power; he drinks no water and becomes weary. ^13 (D)Another crafts wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with ^[b]a stylus. He makes it with planes and outlines it with a compass and makes it like the form of a man, like the glory of ^(E)man, so that it may sit in a ^(F)house. ¹⁴ In order to cut cedars for himself, he takes a ^[c]cypress or an oak and ^[d]raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. ¹⁵ Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also kindles a fire to bake bread. He also ^(G)works to produce a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and ^(H)falls down before it. ¹⁶ Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm; I have seen the fire.” ¹⁷ But the rest of it he ^(I)makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also ^(J)prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

¹⁸ They do not ^(K)know, nor do they understand, for He has ^(L)smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they will have no insight. ¹⁹ No one causes this to return to his heart, nor is there ^(M)knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then ^[e]I make the rest of it into an ^(N)abomination; ^[f]I fall down before a block of wood!” ²⁰ He ^[g](O)feeds on ashes; a ^(P)deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, and he cannot say, “^(Q)Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

^11 [b]Thus you shall say to them, “The ^(W)gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will ^(X)perish from the earth and from under ^[c]the heavens.”

¹⁸ For thus says Yahweh,

²⁹ Being then the offspring of God, we ^(A)ought not to suppose that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the craft and thought of man.

⁴ Therefore, concerning the eating of ^(A)things sacrificed to idols, we know that ^[a]an idol is ^(B)nothing in the world, and that ^(C)there is no God but one.

¹⁹ What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or ^(A)that an idol is anything?

²⁰ And the rest of ^[a]mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(A)did not repent of ^(B)the works of their hands, so as not to ^(C)worship demons, and ^(D)the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.