^28 (A)There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, ^(B)wood and stone, ^(C)which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

¹⁰ Who has fashioned a god or cast ^[a]an idol to ^(A)no profit? ¹¹ Behold, all his companions will be ^(B)put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame.

¹² The ^(C)man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, ^[b]fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and ^[c]his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary. ^13 (D)Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of ^(E)man, so that it may sit in a ^(F)house. ¹⁴ Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a ^[d]cypress or an oak and ^[e]raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. ¹⁵ Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also ^(G)makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and ^(H)falls down before it. ¹⁶ Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.” ¹⁷ But the rest of it he ^(I)makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also ^(J)prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

¹⁸ They do not ^(K)know, nor do they understand, for He has ^(L)smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend. ¹⁹ No one ^[f]recalls, nor is there ^(M)knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then ^[g]I make the rest of it into an ^(N)abomination, ^[h]I fall down before a block of wood!” ²⁰ He ^[i](O)feeds on ashes; a ^(P)deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver ^[j]himself, nor say, “^(Q)Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

^11 [d]Thus you shall say to them, “The ^(W)gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will ^(X)perish from the earth and from under the ^[e]heavens.”

¹⁸ For thus says the Lord,

²⁹ Being then the children of God, we ^(A)ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

⁴ Therefore concerning the eating of ^(A)things sacrificed to idols, we know that ^[a]there is ^(B)no such thing as an idol in the world, and that ^(C)there is no God but one.

¹⁹ What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or ^(A)that an idol is anything?

²⁰ The rest of ^[a]mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(A)did not repent of ^(B)the works of their hands, so as not to ^(C)worship demons, and ^(D)the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;