They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Idols are objects shaped by human hands, overlaid and adorned with silver and gold, then made fast with nails and hammers so that they stand fixed and do not move. Their costly decoration does not give them life, for they remain mere products of human skill without power to act or save. Against this lifeless workmanship stands the living God, who made the earth and exercises sovereign rule over it. Beside Him such gods are falsehood, and their appointed end is to perish.
Idols are objects shaped by human hands, overlaid and adorned with silver and gold, then made fast with nails and hammers so that they stand fixed and do not move. Their costly decoration does not give them life, for they remain mere products of human skill without power to act or save. Against this lifeless workmanship stands the living God, who made the earth and exercises sovereign rule over it. Beside Him such gods are falsehood, and their appointed end is to perish.