31:6 I hate those who serve worthless idols,
but I trust in the Lord.
8:19 I hear my dear people
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
They are crying, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion?
Is her divine King
The Lord answers,
“Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images,
with their worthless foreign idols?”
10:3 For the religion
They cut down a tree in the forest,
and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.
10:8 The people of those nations
Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
14:22 Do any of the worthless idols
Do the skies themselves send showers?
Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this?
So we put our hopes in you
because you alone do all this.”
16:19 Then I said,
“Lord, you give me strength and protect me.
You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble.
Nations from all over the earth
will come to you and say,
‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods –
worthless idols that could not help them at all.
18:15 Yet my people have forgotten me
and offered sacrifices to worthless idols!
This makes them stumble along in the way they live
and leave the old reliable path of their fathers.
They have left them to walk in bypaths,
in roads that are not smooth and level.