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The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
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He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.
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Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;
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who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
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Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.
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Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
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Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?
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Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn`t faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
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He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength.
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Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
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but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.