"And do not turn aside; for [then you would go] after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they [are] nothing.

And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and [went] after the nations who [were] all around them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

I have hated those who regard useless idols; But I trust in the LORD.

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, [And] hewn themselves cisterns -- broken cisterns that can hold no water.

But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; A wooden idol [is] a worthless doctrine.

Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; For his molded image [is] falsehood, And [there is] no breath in them.

They [are] futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall perish.

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable [things."]

" What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols?

But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him."