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19 A craftsman casts the idol,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold.
He forges silver chains for it.
20 He chooses mulberry wood as an offering,[a]
wood that will not rot.
He looks for a skillful craftsman
    to erect an idol that will not fall over.

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood it from the founding of the earth?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:20 Or the poor person chooses wood as an offering