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)

⁴ They adorn it with silver^(A) and gold;
    they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so it will not totter.^(B)

¹⁷ From the rest he makes a god, his idol;
    he bows down to it and worships.^(A)
He prays^(B) to it and says,
    “Save^(C) me! You are my god!”
¹⁸ They know nothing, they understand^(D) nothing;
    their eyes^(E) are plastered over so they cannot see,
    and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
¹⁹ No one stops to think,
    no one has the knowledge or understanding^(F) to say,
“Half of it I used for fuel;^(G)
    I even baked bread over its coals,
    I roasted meat and I ate.
Shall I make a detestable^(H) thing from what is left?
    Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”^(I)
20 Such a person feeds on ashes;^(J) a deluded^(K) heart misleads him;
    he cannot save himself, or say,
    “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?^(L)”

¹⁸ “Of what value^(A) is an idol^(B) carved by a craftsman?
    Or an image^(C) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
    he makes idols that cannot speak.^(D)
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
    Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’^(E)
Can it give guidance?
    It is covered with gold and silver;^(F)
    there is no breath in it.”^(G)