Jeremiah 10:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ people deck it with silver and gold;
    they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so that it cannot move.
⁵ Their idols^[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
    and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
    for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
    for they cannot do evil,
    nor is it in them to do good.