Habakkuk 2:17-19

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁷ You will be overwhelmed by the violence you have committed against Lebanon. Your devastation of the animals will terrify you,^[a] because you shed human blood and did violence to the land, to the town, and to its inhabitants.

¹⁸ What benefit is provided by a carved idol? It was hewn by its maker. What good is a cast statue? It teaches lies. Why would the maker trust his own creation? He makes useless gods that cannot speak. ¹⁹ Woe to him who says to a hunk of wood, “Wake up!” or who says, “Get up!” to a stone that cannot speak. Can that thing be your teacher? Although it is covered with gold and silver, there is no life in it at all.