Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!”
They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.
Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.”
knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
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