32:21 They have made me jealous
enraging me with their worthless gods;
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize,
with a nation slow to learn
2:5 This is what the Lord says:
“What fault could your ancestors
that they strayed so far from me?
They paid allegiance to
2:13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong:
they have rejected me,
the fountain of life-giving water,
and they have dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
10:8 The people of those nations
Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
10:15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked.
When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
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.
2:8 Those who worship
2:18 What good
What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles?
Why would its creator place his trust in it
and make
2:1 I will stand at my watch post;
I will remain stationed on the city wall.
I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me
and can know
when he counters my argument.