17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you,And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid,Because of men’s bloodAnd the violence of the land and the city,And of all who dwell in it.
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 the Lord is in His holy temple.Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”