Jeremiah 10:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down,
    and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;
⁴ people deck it with silver and gold;
    they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so that it cannot move.
⁵ Their idols^[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
    and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
    for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
    for they cannot do evil,
    nor is it in them to do good.