“Learn not the way of the nations,

nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens

because the nations are dismayed at them,

5  Their idols¹ are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,

and ^jthey cannot speak;

^kthey have to be carried,

for they cannot walk.

Do not be afraid of them,

^lfor they cannot do evil,

neither is it in them to do good.”