⁶ For from Israel is even this:
A ^(A)workman made it, and it is not God;
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.

³ For the customs of the peoples are ^[a]futile;
For ^(A)one cuts a tree from the forest,
The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
⁴ They decorate it with silver and gold;
They ^(B)fasten it with nails and hammers
So that it will not topple.
⁵ They are upright, like a palm tree,
And ^(C)they cannot speak;
They must be ^(D)carried,
Because they cannot go by themselves.
Do not be afraid of them,
For ^(E)they cannot do evil,
Nor can they do any good.”

46 Bel ^(A)bows down, Nebo stoops;
Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle.
Your carriages were heavily loaded,
^(B)A burden to the weary beast.
² They stoop, they bow down together;
They could not deliver the burden,
^(C)But have themselves gone into captivity.

¹⁷ And the rest of it he makes into a god,
His carved image.
He falls down before it and worships it,
Prays to it and says,
“Deliver me, for you are my god!”

^9 (A)Those who make an image, all of them are useless,
And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
^(B)They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
¹⁰ Who would form a god or mold an image
^(C)That profits him nothing?

^29 (A)Indeed they are all ^[a]worthless;
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion.

²⁴ Indeed ^(A)you are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.