⁶ For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
    it is not God.
^(A)The calf of Samaria
    ^(B)shall be broken to pieces.^[a]

^3 (A)for the customs of the peoples are vanity.^[a]
(B)A tree from the forest is cut down
    and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
^4 (C)They decorate it with silver and gold;
    ^(D)they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so that it cannot move.
⁵ Their idols^[b] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
    and ^(E)they cannot speak;
^(F)they have to be carried,
    for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
    ^(G)for they cannot do evil,
    neither is it in them to do good.”

46 ^(A)Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
    as burdens on weary beasts.
² They stoop; they bow down together;
    they cannot save the burden,
    but ^(B)themselves go into captivity.

^29 (A)Behold, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their metal images are empty wind.

²⁴ Behold, ^(A)you are nothing,
    and your work is less than nothing;
    an abomination is he who chooses you.