Jeremiah 10:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.

⁴ He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.

⁵ They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore, fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.