20 Can man make for himself (A)gods?
    Such are not gods!”

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19 and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

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(A)Their idols are silver and gold,
    (B)the work of human hands.
They have mouths, (C)but do not speak;
    eyes, but do not see.
They have ears, but do not hear;
    noses, but do not smell.
They have hands, but do not feel;
    feet, but do not walk;
    and they do not make a sound in their throat.
(D)Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.

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Paul's Concern for the Galatians

Formerly, when you (A)did not know God, you (B)were enslaved to those that by nature (C)are not gods.

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(A)They made kings, (B)but not through me.
    They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
    for their own destruction.
(C)I have[a] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
(D)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
    it is not God.
(E)The calf of Samaria
    (F)shall be broken to pieces.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:5 Hebrew He has
  2. Hosea 8:6 Or shall go up in flames

11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
    (B)even though they are no gods?
But my people (C)have changed their glory
    for (D)that which does not profit.

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But even if we or (A)an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, (B)let him be accursed.

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26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, (A)saying that (B)gods made with hands are not gods.

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19 (A)Where are the gods of (B)Hamath and (C)Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? (D)Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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14 (A)For the Lord will vindicate his people
    and (B)have compassion on his servants.

15 (C)The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
    the work of human hands.
16 They have mouths, but do not speak;
    they have eyes, but do not see;
17 they have ears, but do not hear,
    nor is there any breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them become like them,
    so do all who trust in them.

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