Jeremiah 10:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² Thus says the LORD: “Do not learn the way of the heathen, and do not be afraid of the signs of Heaven, though the heathen are afraid of such.

³ “For the customs of the people are frivolous. For one cuts a tree out of the forest (which is the work of the hands of the carpenter) with the axe,

⁴ “and another decorates it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and hammers, so that it does not fall.