¹Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. ²This is what the LORD says: ³For the customs of the peoples are worthless; ⁴They adorn it with silver and gold ⁵Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, ⁶There is none like You, O LORD. ⁷Who would not fear You, O King of nations? ⁸But they are altogether senseless and foolish, ⁹Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, ¹⁰But the LORD is the true God; ¹¹Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.” ¹²The LORD made the earth by His power; ¹³When He thunders, ¹⁴Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; ¹⁵They are worthless, a work to be mocked. ¹⁶The Portion of Jacob is not like these,