8 Do not fear, nor be afraid;have I not told you from of old, and declared it?You are My witnesses!Is there a God besides Me?There is no Rock; I know not any.
9 Those who make a graven image are, all of them, vain,and their delectable things shall not profit;and they are their own witnesses;they do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
10 Who has formed a god or molded a graven imagethat is profitable for nothing?
11 All his companions shall be ashamed;and the workmen, they are mere men.Let them all be gathered together; let them stand up,yet they shall fear; they shall be ashamed together.
12 The smith with the tongsboth works in the coalsand fashions it with hammers,and works it with the strength of his arms.He becomes hungry, and his strength fails;He drinks no water and is faint.
13 The carpenter stretches out his measuring line;he marks it out with a line;he fits it with planes,and he marks it out with the compass,and makes it after the figure of a man,according to the beauty of a man,that it may remain in the house.
14 He hews down cedars for himself,and takes the cypress and the oak,which he raises for himself among the trees of the forest.He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.