Habakkuk 2:17-19
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you;
the destruction of the animals will terrify you—[a]
because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth,
to cities and all who live in them.
18 What use is an idol
once its maker has shaped it—
a cast image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in what has been made,
though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!
19 Alas for you who say to the wood, ‘Wake up!’
to silent stone, ‘Rouse yourself!’
Can it teach?
See, it is plated with gold and silver,
and there is no breath in it at all.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:17 Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
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