¹⁷ For the violence of Lebanon will cover you,
    and the destruction of wild animals will shatter them
on account of the blood of humanity,
    and the violence against the land,
    against a city and all the inhabitants in it.
¹⁸ What value is an idol
    when its carver has fashioned it,
    a molten idol, a teacher of lies?
For he who fashioned his creation trusts in it,
    though making mute idols!
¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Wake up!’
    And to a lifeless stone, ‘Arise!’
    Can he teach?
Look, it is covered with gold and silver,
    and there is no breath within it.