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Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?
45
They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else thanthe workmen will have them to be.
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And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?
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For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.
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For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.
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How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?
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For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:
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And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
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Who then may not know that they are no gods?
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For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men.
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Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.