Their (A)idols are silver and gold,
The (B)work of man’s hands.
They have mouths, but they (C)cannot speak;
They have eyes, but they cannot see;
They have ears, but they cannot hear;
They have noses, but they cannot smell;
[a]They have hands, but they cannot feel;
[b]They have feet, but they cannot walk;
They cannot make a sound with their throat.
(D)Those who make them [c]will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 115:7 Lit Their hands
  2. Psalm 115:7 Lit Their feet
  3. Psalm 115:8 Or are like them

He will not have regard for the (A)altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his (B)fingers have made,
Even the [a](C)Asherim and [b]incense stands.

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  1. Isaiah 17:8 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
  2. Isaiah 17:8 Or sun pillars

19 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the (A)work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have (B)destroyed them.

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19 As for the [a](A)idol, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith (B)plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

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  1. Isaiah 40:19 Or graven image

17 But the rest of it he (A)makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also (B)prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

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