"Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
10 3 for the customs of the peoples are false.
A tree from the forest is cut down,
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
10 4 Men deck it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
10 5 Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Be not afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good."
10 6 There is none like you, O Yahweh;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
10 7 Who would not fear you,
O King of the nations?
For this is your due;
for among all the wise ones of the nations
and in all their kingdoms
there is none like you.
10 8 They are both stupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!
10 9 Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,
and gold from Uphaz.
They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;
their clothing is violet and purple;
they are all the work of skilled men.
10 10 But Yahweh is the true God;
he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
10 11 Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."