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Isaiah 44:14
He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.

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Isaiah 44:15
Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.

Jeremiah 10:3
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

Jeremiah 10:4
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

Isaiah 40:20
The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

Habakkuk 2:19
A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

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Psalms 115:4
Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Psalms 115:5
They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

Psalms 115:6
They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;

Psalms 115:7
They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

Psalms 115:8
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

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Psalms 80:15
Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

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