Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination.

Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.

“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”