67
they cannot show signs in the heavens and among the nations, or shine like the sun or give light like the moon.
68
The wild beasts are better than they are, for they can flee to cover and help themselves.
69
So we have no evidence whatever that they are gods; therefore do not fear them.
70
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed, that guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver.
71
In the same way, their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver, and like a thorn bush in a garden, on which every bird sits; or like a dead body cast out in the darkness.
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.