<p class="poetry">will you, with him, spread out<n id="1" /> the clouds,p> <p class="poetry">solid as a mirror of molten metal?p>

<p class="poetry">I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground;p> <p class="poetry">I crush them and stomp on them like clay<n id="1" /> in the streets.p>

<p class="poetry">to the one who spread out the earth over the water,p> <p class="poetry">for his loyal love endures,p>

<p class="poetry">A craftsman casts<n id="1" /> an idol;p> <p class="poetry">a metalsmith overlays it with goldp> <p class="poetry">and forges silver chains for it.p>

They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave<n id="1" /> them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

<p class="poetry">This is what the true God,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, says &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the one who created the sky and stretched it out,p> <p class="poetry">the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who gives breath to the people on it,p> <p class="poetry">and life to those who live on it:<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc>, your protector,<n id="1" /> says,p> <p class="poetry">the one who formed you in the womb:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, who made everything,p> <p class="poetry">who alone stretched out the sky,p> <p class="poetry">who fashioned the earth all by myself,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and gold is brought from Uphaz<n id="2" /> to cover those idols.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">They are clothed in blue and purple clothes.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">They are all made by skillful workers.<n id="6" />p>

For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn<n id="1" /> over the land of Israel,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, &#8220;Ah!&#8221; because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence.<n id="1" />