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Habakkuk 2:18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

18 Of what use is the carved image,[a]
    that its maker should carve it?
Or the molten image, the lying oracle,
    that its very maker should trust in it,
    and make mute idols?

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Footnotes

  1. 2:18–20 Idolatrous worship is here shown to be folly by contrasting idols with the majesty of the one true God. Verse 18 may originally have followed v. 19, since the term “Ah!” begins each new saying in this section.
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