Jeremiah 10:2-4

Revised Standard Version

“Learn not the way of the nations,
    nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
    because the nations are dismayed at them,
³ for the customs of the peoples are false.
A tree from the forest is cut down,
    and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
⁴ Men deck it with silver and gold;
    they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so that it cannot move.