²⁰ And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

¹¹ Hath a nation changed gods? (And they `are' no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

⁴ `Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which `is' in the heavens above, or which `is' in the earth beneath, or which `is' in the waters under the earth.

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

¹⁷ For the beauty of their strength `art' Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

¹⁸ And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?

¹⁹ The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.

²⁰ He who is poor `by' heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.

²¹ Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood `From' the foundations of the earth?

²² He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants `are' as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

²³ He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

²⁴ Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

²⁵ And unto whom do ye liken Me, And `am' I equal? saith the Holy One.

²² professing to be wise, they were made fools,

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.