3 for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut downand worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4 They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nailsso that it cannot move.
5 Their idols 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,neither is it in them to do good.”
6 There is none like you, O Lord;you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?For this is your due;for among all the wise ones of the nationsand in all their kingdomsthere is none like you.
8 They are both stupid and foolish;the instruction of idols is but wood!
9 Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.