¹¹ Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

²⁰ Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

¹⁹ and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

²³ and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass.

⁵ Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; But we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

⁴ Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

⁸ The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

⁵ thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

³ But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, My glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

²⁹ Happy are you, Israel: Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.

¹⁸ knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,