Isaiah 44:13-19

131Another 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 2man, so that it may sit in a 3house. 14Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a 4cypress or an oak and 5raises 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 6makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and 7falls 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 8makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also 9prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

18They do not 10know, nor do they understand, for He has 11smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend. 19No one 12recalls, nor is there 13knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then 14I make the rest of it into an 15abomination, 16I fall down before a block of wood!”