49
How then can one fail to see that these are not gods, for they cannot save themselves from war or calamity?
50
Since they are made of wood and overlaid with gold and silver, it will afterward be known that they are false.
51
It will be manifest to all the nations and kings that they are not gods but the work of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
52
Who then can fail to know that they are not gods?
53
For they cannot set up a king over a country or give rain to men.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.