³ For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down
    and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;^(A)
4 they deck it with silver and gold;
    they fasten it with hammers and nails
    so that it cannot move.^(B)
5 Their idols^[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
    and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
    for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
    for they cannot do evil,
    nor is it in them to do good.^(C)

¹³ O hope of Israel! O Lord!
    All who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you^[a] shall be recorded in the underworld,^[b]
    for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.^(A)