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Their (A)idols are silver and gold,
The (B)work of man’s hands.
They have mouths, but they (C)do not speak;
They have eyes, but they do not see;
They have ears, but they do not hear;
They have noses, but they do not smell;
As for their hands, they do not feel;
As for their feet, they do not walk;
They do not make a sound with their throat.
(D)Those who make them [a]will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.

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  1. Psalm 115:8 Or are like them

19 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the (A)work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have (B)destroyed them.

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18 “What (A)profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it,
Or a molten image, a (B)teacher of [a]lies?
For its maker (C)trusts in his own making
When he fashions speechless idols.
19 Woe to him who (D)says to a piece of wood, ‘(E)Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with (F)gold and silver,
And there is (G)no breath at all inside it.

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  1. Habakkuk 2:18 Lit a lie