Jeremiah 10:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ for the customs of the peoples are false.
A tree from the forest is cut down,
    and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
⁴ Men deck it with silver and gold;
    they fasten it with hammer and nails
    so that it cannot move.
⁵ Their idols^[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
    and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
    for they cannot walk.
Be not afraid of them,
    for they cannot do evil,
    neither is it in them to do good.”