Holy Scripture
Isaiah 46:5
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 5 and following) To whom have you likened me, and equalized, and compared me, and made me similar? You who pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, hiring a goldsmith to make a god, and they fall down and worship. They carry him on their shoulders, carrying and placing him in his place, and h…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.
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In context
3Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, and taught by me from infancy, even to old age:
4I am he; and until ye shall have grown old, I am he: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.
— Isaiah 46:5 —
6They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.
7They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.