Holy Scripture
Isaiah 46:7
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
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.
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5To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.
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.
— Isaiah 46:7 —
8Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;
9and remember the former things that were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,