1Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel!
2The LORD says,
3For the customs of the peoples are vanity;
4They deck it with silver and with gold.
5They are like a palm tree, of turned work,
6There is no one like you, LORD.
7Who shouldn’t fear you,
8But they are together brutish and foolish,
9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish,
10But the LORD is the true God.
11“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
12God has made the earth by his power.
13When he utters his voice,
14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge.
15They are vanity, a work of delusion.
16The portion of Jacob is not like these;
17Gather up your wares out of the land,
18For the LORD says,
19Woe is me because of my injury!
20My tent has been destroyed,
21For the shepherds have become brutish,
22The voice of news, behold, it comes,
23LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself.
24LORD, correct me, but gently;
25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,