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For the statutes of the peoples are (A)vanity
Because (B)it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
They (C)make it beautiful with silver and with gold;
They (D)strengthen it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they (E)cannot speak;
They must be (F)carried
Because they cannot take a step!
Do not fear them,
For they (G)can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.”

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For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
    they cut a tree out of the forest,
    and a craftsman(A) shapes it with his chisel.(B)
They adorn it with silver(C) and gold;
    they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so it will not totter.(D)
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
    their idols cannot speak;(E)
they must be carried
    because they cannot walk.(F)
Do not fear them;
    they can do no harm(G)
    nor can they do any good.”(H)

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