Isaiah 44:12-17

12The 1man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, 2fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and 3his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary. 134Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of 5man, so that it may sit in a 6house. 14Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a 7cypress or an oak and 8raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. 15Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also 9makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and 10falls down before it. 16Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.” 17But the rest of it he 11makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also 12prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”