³ All you people of the world,^(A)
    you who live on the earth,
when a banner^(B) is raised on the mountains,
    you will see it,
and when a trumpet^(C) sounds,
    you will hear it.

⁹ All who make idols^(A) are nothing,
    and the things they treasure are worthless.^(B)
Those who would speak up for them are blind;^(C)
    they are ignorant, to their own shame.^(D)

¹⁸ They know nothing, they understand^(A) nothing;
    their eyes^(B) are plastered over so they cannot see,
    and their minds closed so they cannot understand.