8
Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have ye not heard from the beginning, and I told you? ye are witnesses if there is a God beside me.
9
But they that framed did not then hearken; and they that graved are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed
10
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:
11
and all by whom they were made are withered: yea, let all the deaf be gathered from men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together:
12
For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.