19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
14 Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is hput to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and ithere is no breath in them.
17 Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is vput to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and wthere is no breath in them.
Judgment on Judah
4 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Judah,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they have yrejected the law of the Lord,
and have not kept his statutes,
but their lies have led them astray,
those after which their fathers walked.
8 Those who pay regard to yvain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love.
18 “What cprofit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes dspeechless idols!
