(A)Those who pay regard to vain idols
    (B)forsake their hope of steadfast love.

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“Those who cling to worthless idols(A)
    turn away from God’s love for them.

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I (A)hate[a] those who pay (B)regard to worthless (C)idols,
    but I trust in the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:6 Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome You hate

I hate those who cling to worthless idols;(A)
    as for me, I trust in the Lord.(B)

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13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
    the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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13 “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken(A) me,
    the spring of living water,(B)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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15 They despised his statutes (A)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (B)false idols (C)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (D)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

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15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant(A) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols(B) and themselves became worthless.(C) They imitated the nations(D) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

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(A)They are both (B)stupid and foolish;
    the instruction of idols is but wood!

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They are all senseless(A) and foolish;(B)
    they are taught by worthless wooden idols.(C)

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21 And (A)do not turn aside after (B)empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

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21 Do not turn away after useless(A) idols.(B) They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.

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18 (A)“What profit is an idol
    when its maker has shaped it,
    a metal image, (B)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
    when he makes (C)speechless idols!
19 (D)Woe to him (E)who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
    to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
    and (F)there is no breath at all in it.
20 But (G)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    (H)let all the earth keep silence before him.”

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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 The Lord is in his holy temple;(H)
    let all the earth be silent(I) before him.

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19 (A)O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
    (B)my refuge in the day of trouble,
(C)to you shall the nations come
    from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
    (D)worthless things in which there is no profit.

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19 Lord, my strength and my fortress,
    my refuge(A) in time of distress,
to you the nations will come(B)
    from the ends of the earth and say,
“Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,(C)
    worthless idols(D) that did them no good.(E)

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14 (A)Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
    (B)every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
    (C)and there is no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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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.
15 They are worthless,(C) the objects of mockery;
    when their judgment comes, they will perish.

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