CLV(i)
1 Hear you the word, O house of Israel, That Yahweh has spoken for you."
2 Thus said Yahweh:Unto the way of the nations accustom not yourselves, And by the signs of the heavens be not affrighted, For the nations are affrighted by them."
3 For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest has one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,
4 With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it does not stumble."
5 As a palm they [are] stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them."