Habakkuk 2:17-19

International Children’s Bible

¹⁷ You hurt many people in Lebanon.
    Now you will be hurt.
You killed many animals there.
    And now you must be afraid.
You will be afraid because of what you did
    to those cities and the people who lived in them.

¹⁸ “An idol does no good, because a man made it.
    It is only a statue that teaches lies.
The person who made it expects his own work to help him.
    But it can’t even speak!
¹⁹ How terrible it will be for the nation that says to a wooden statue, ‘Come to life!’
    How terrible it will be when this nation says to a stone that cannot speak, ‘Get up!’
These things cannot tell them what to do.
    That idol is only a statue covered with gold and silver.
    There is no life in it.