⁸ Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

⁶ I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

¹⁵ and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;

¹³ For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.

²¹ and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,

⁸ And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.

¹⁴ Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false `is' his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

¹⁵ Vanity `are' they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

¹⁸ What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?

¹⁹ Wo `to' him who is saying to wood, `Awake,' `Stir up,' to a dumb stone, It a teacher! lo, it is overlaid -- gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst.

²⁰ And Jehovah `is' in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!