Add parallel Print Page Options

(A) The idols of the nations
    are made of silver and gold.
They have a mouth and eyes,
    but they can't speak or see.
Their ears can't hear,
    and their noses can't smell.
Their hands have no feeling,
their legs don't move,
    and they can't make a sound.
Everyone who made the idols
    and all who trust them
are just as helpless
    as those useless gods.

Read full chapter

But their idols are silver and gold,(A)
    made by human hands.(B)
They have mouths, but cannot speak,(C)
    eyes, but cannot see.
They have ears, but cannot hear,
    noses, but cannot smell.
They have hands, but cannot feel,
    feet, but cannot walk,
    nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
Those who make them will be like them,
    and so will all who trust in them.

Read full chapter

20 (A) The people who lived through these terrible troubles did not turn away from the idols they had made, and they did not stop worshiping demons. They kept on worshiping idols that were made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood. Not one of these idols could see, hear, or walk.

Read full chapter

20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent(A) of the work of their hands;(B) they did not stop worshiping demons,(C) and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.(D)

Read full chapter