Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, guilded it over, [and] made it a similitude?

everyone judging for his neighbor and [that] to assist his brother; and one will say,

The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, [and] forges also; sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined; they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.

They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

And he received them from their hands, and formed them with an engraving tool; and he made them a molded calf, and said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

they have quickly gone out of the way which you have commanded; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said,

For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

they will set them up that they may not move.

[This translation omits this verse.]

[brought] from Tarshish, gold will come from Uphaz, and the work of goldsmiths. [They are] all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.

Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.