¹⁵ They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

²⁴ But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

¹⁸ They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

²² Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

² And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

⁸ When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.

¹⁹ The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

¹² Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.

¹⁸ And the images will never be seen again.

¹⁹ And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

²⁰ In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

²¹ To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

¹⁵ Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

³ I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

⁴ And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,

¹¹ This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

⁸ But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

²⁹ Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

²¹ And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

²¹ They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,