^{2 Ref} Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

^{3 Ref} For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

^{4 Ref} They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

^{5 Ref} They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

^{6 Ref} Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

^{7 Ref} Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

^{8 Ref} But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

^{9 Ref} Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

^{10 Ref} But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

^{11 Ref} Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

^{12 Ref} He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

^{13 Ref} When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

^{14 Ref} Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

^{15 Ref} They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

^{16 Ref} The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.