17“For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
         And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them,
         Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,
         To the town and all its inhabitants.

18“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
         Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
         For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
         When he fashions speechless idols.

19“Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’
         To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
         And that is your teacher?
         Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
         And there is no breath at all inside it.

20“But the LORD is in His holy temple.
         Let all the earth be silent before Him.”

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