⁹ Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

¹⁷ All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

²⁴ Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

²⁹ Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

¹¹ Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

⁷ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

²⁰ Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

⁸ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.