Holy Scripture
Isaiah 46:6
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“And despite my exhortation you delayed in expelling such blasphemy and ungodliness, daring to compare me with those who lack being and in no way have my divinity. You esteemed me as equal to soulless wood that you shaped. You added gold and silver from contributions and made a statue from human hands, and you were not…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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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.
5To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.
— Isaiah 46:6 —
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.
8Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;