1You people of Israel, listen to what Yahweh says:
2“Do not act like the people of other nations act,
3The customs of the people of other nations are worthless.
4Then people decorate the idol with silver and gold.
5Then the idol stands there like [SIM] a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers/melons!
6Yahweh, there is no one like you.
7You are the king of all the nations!
8Those people who think that they are very wise [IRO] are stupid and foolish [DOU].
9People hammer into thin sheets silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz,
10But Yahweh is the only true God;
11You Israeli people, tell this to those people: “Those idols did not make the sky and the earth, and they will disappear from the earth.”
12But Yahweh made the earth by his power;
13When he speaks loudly, there is thunder in the sky;
14People are senseless and know very little [HYP];
15Idols are worthless; they deserve to be ridiculed;
16But the God whom we Israelis worship is not like those idols;
17Yahweh says this to the people of Jerusalem:
18I will soon throw you out of this land
19The people replied, “It is as though we have been badly wounded,
20It is as though our great tent is destroyed;
21Our leaders [MET] no longer have any sense;
22Listen! Our enemies’ armies in the north are making a very big noise/commotion
23Yahweh, I know that no person controls what will happen to him;
24So correct/discipline us, but do it gently.
25Punish [MTY] all the nations whose people do not acknowledge/say that you are God;