Jeremiah 10:3-10

3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.1

4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it may not move.

5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

6Forasmuch as there is none like thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

7Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like thee.2

8But they are altogether stupid and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.3

9Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful men .

10But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.456