¹⁴ Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
    every goldsmith is shamed^(A) by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;^(B)
    they have no breath in them.

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)

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)

⁵ “With whom will you compare me or count me equal?
    To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?^(A)
6 Some pour out gold from their bags
    and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith^(B) to make it into a god,
    and they bow down and worship it.^(C)
7 They lift it to their shoulders and carry^(D) it;
    they set it up in its place, and there it stands.
    From that spot it cannot move.^(E)
Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer;^(F)
    it cannot save^(G) them from their troubles.