The Folly of Idolatry

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To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

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To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

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To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?

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Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

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He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

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He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

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No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

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“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

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Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

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