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Those who fashion ^[g]a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be ^(t)put to shame.

Who has fashioned a god or cast ^[h]an idol to ^(u)no profit?

Behold, all his companions will be ^(v)put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame.

The ^(w)man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, ^[i]fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and ^[j]his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

But the rest of it he ^(ac)makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also ^(ad)prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."