44
But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods?
45
And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be.
46
For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long continuance. Can those things then that are made by them be gods?
47
But they have left false things and reproach to them that come after.
48
For when war cometh upon them, or evils, the priests consult with themselves where they may hide themselves with them.
49
How then can they be thought to be gods, that can neither deliver themselves from war, nor save themselves from evils?
50
For seeing they are but of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false things, by all nations and kings: and it shall be manifest that they are no gods, but the work of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
51
Whence therefore is it known that they are not gods, but the work of men's hands, and no work of God is in them?
52
They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men.
53
They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression; because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth.
54
For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood, and of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be saved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams.