The Folly of Idolatry

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To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

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The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.

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He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.

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Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

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It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

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that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

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Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

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To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith the Holy One.

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Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

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