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They are both stupid and foolish;
    the instruction given by idols
    is no better than wood![a](A)

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  1. 10.8 Q ms Gk lack 10.6–8

For the teraphim[a] utter nonsense,
    and the diviners see lies;
the dreamers tell false dreams
    and give empty consolation.
Therefore the people[b] wander like sheep;
    they suffer for lack of a shepherd.(A)

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  1. 10.2 Or household gods
  2. 10.2 Heb they

14 Everyone is stupid and without knowledge;
    goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols,
for their images are false,
    and there is no breath in them.(A)

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18 What use is an idol
    once its maker has shaped it—
    a cast image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in what has been made,
    though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!(A)

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17 Everyone is stupid and without knowledge;
    goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols,
for their images are false,
    and there is no breath in them.(A)
18 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.(B)

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19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. Now shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”(A)

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29 No, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their images are empty wind.(A)

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18 Those who make them
    and all who trust them
    shall become like them.

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Those who make them are like them;
    so are all who trust in them.(A)

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21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(A) 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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12 My people consult a piece of wood,
    and their divining rod gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
    and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.(A)

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22 “For my people are foolish;
    they do not know me;
they are stupid children;
    they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil
    but do not know how to do good.”(A)

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27 who say to a tree, “You are my father,”
    and to a stone, “You gave me birth.”
For they have turned their backs to me
    and not their faces.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
    “Come and save us!”(A)

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