Habakkuk 2:17-19

New International Reader's Version

¹⁷The harm they have done to Lebanon
    will bring them down.
Because they have killed so many animals,
    animals will terrify them.
They have spilled human blood.
    They have destroyed lands and cities
    and everyone in them.

¹⁸“If someone carves a statue of a god, what is it worth?
    What value is there in a god
    that teaches lies?
The one who trusts in this kind of god
    worships his own creation.
    He makes statues of gods that can’t speak.
¹⁹How terrible it will be for the Babylonians!
    They say to a wooden god, ‘Come to life!’
They say to a stone god, ‘Wake up!’
    Can those gods give advice?
They are covered with gold and silver.
    They can’t even breathe.”