who change the truth of God into the lie, and fear and serve the created things more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Thus they changed their Glory into the image of an ox that eats grass.

Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit.

Take diligent heed to your souls, for you saw no form on the day Jehovah spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

the figure of any beast on the earth or the figure of any bird that flies in the heavens,

You shall not make for yourself a carved image; any likeness of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth;

They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see;

they have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they utter through their throat.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

they have ears, but they do not hear; nor is there any breath in their mouths.

To whom then will you compare the Mighty God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

Lift up your eyes on high, and consider who has created these things, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one is missing.

The craftsman in wood stretches a measuring line; he makes an outline with a marker; he works it with carving tools, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it like the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.

So I went in and saw; and behold, every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, carved all around on the wall.

Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine is like gold or silver or stone, something engraved by art and man's devising.

You know that you were Gentiles, led away regarding these mute idols, in whatever manner you were led.

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not do homage to demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which are not able to see nor hear nor walk.