3 For the statutes of the peoples are avanity
Because bit is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
4 They amake it beautiful with silver and with gold;
They bstrengthen it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.
5 Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they acannot speak;
They must be bcarried
Because they cannot take a step!
Do not fear them,
For they ccan do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.”
6 aThere is none like You, O Yahweh;
You are bgreat, and great is Your name in might.
7 aWho would not fear You, O bKing of the nations?
Indeed it is Your due!
For among all the cwise men of the nations
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.
8 But they are altogether asenseless and foolish;
They are in a discipline of vanities—it is mere wood!
9 Beaten asilver is brought from bTarshish,
And cgold from Uphaz,
The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith;
Blue and purple are their clothing;
They are all the dwork of wise craftsmen.
10 But Yahweh is the atrue God;
He is the bliving God and the ceverlasting King.
At His wrath the dearth quakes,
And the nations cannot eendure His indignation.