⁸ “Those who regard ^(A)worthless idols
Forsake their own ^[a]Mercy.

⁶ I have hated those ^(A)who regard useless idols;
But I trust in the Lord.

¹⁹ O Lord, ^(A)my strength and my fortress,
^(B)My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and ^(C)unprofitable things.”

^14 (A)Everyone is ^(B)dull-hearted, without knowledge;
^(C)Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image;
^(D)For his molded image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.
¹⁵ They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.

¹⁸ “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
The molded image, a teacher of lies,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
To make mute idols?
¹⁹ Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’
To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
Yet in it there is no breath at all.

²⁰ “But^(A) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”