³² And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;

⁵ And the spirit of the Lord came on me, and he said to me, Say, These are the words of the Lord: This is what you have said, O children of Israel; what comes into your mind is clear to me.

¹⁷ But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.

²⁰ And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

⁴ They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

²⁸ There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

² And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

¹⁰ This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:

³⁷ Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

²⁹ And this will be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I will give you punishment in this place, so that you may see that my words will certainly have effect against you for evil:

¹⁹ And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

²¹ A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

⁵ And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.

¹⁷ And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

⁶⁴ And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.

³⁶ And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.