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.
11 Thus you shall say to them, “The agods that did not make the heavens and the earth will bperish from the earth and from under the heavens.”