²⁸ Where then are the gods^(A) you made for yourselves?
    Let them come if they can save you
    when you are in trouble!^(B)
For you, Judah, have as many gods
    as you have towns.^(C)

²⁰ “Gather together^(A) and come;
    assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant^(B) are those who carry^(C) about idols of wood,
    who pray to gods that cannot save.^(D)

³⁷ He will say: “Now where are their gods,
    the rock they took refuge in,^(A)

⁷ They lift it to their shoulders and carry^(A) it;
    they set it up in its place, and there it stands.
    From that spot it cannot move.^(B)
Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer;^(C)
    it cannot save^(D) them from their troubles.

10 Israel was a spreading vine;^(A)
    he brought forth fruit for himself.
As his fruit increased,
    he built more altars;^(B)
as his land prospered,^(C)
    he adorned his sacred stones.^(D)