ECB(i)
3 for the statutes of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree from the forest - the work of the hands of the engraver with the ax:
4 they beautify with silver and with gold; they strengthen with nails and with hammers so that it wiggles not:
5 round as the palm tree, but word not: in bearing, they bear, because they pace not. Awe them not, for they vilify not; yes, it is not in them to well-please.
6 Because there is no one like you, O Yah Veh; you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who awes you not, O Sovereign of goyim? For it becomes you: for among all the wise of the goyim, and in all their sovereigndoms, there is no one like you.
8 And as one, they are brutish and foolish: the tree is a discipline of vanities.
9 They bring expanded silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz - the work of the engraver and of the hands of the refiner: blue and purple is their robe: they are all the work of wise.
10 And Yah Veh is the Elohim of truth; he is the living Elohim and eternal sovereign: the earth quakes at his rage and the goyim contain not his rage.
11 Thus you say to them, The elah who made not the heavens and the earth destructs from the earth and from under these heavens.
12 He worked the earth by his force; he established the world by his wisdom; and spread the heavens by his discernment.
13 He gives his voice; there is a multitude of waters in the heavens: and he ascends the vapours from the ends of the earth: he works lightnings with rain and brings forth the wind from his treasures.
14 All humanity is brutish in knowledge: every refiner is shamed by the sculptile: for his libation is falsehood and there is no spirit in them:
15 they are vanity, the work of frauds: in the time of their visitation they destruct.
16 The allotment of Yaaqov is not like them: for he is the former of all; and Yisra El is the scion of his inheritance: Yah Veh Sabaoth is his name.