“ Some people worship the worthless statues of their gods. They turn away from God’s love for them.

那信奉虚无之神的人，离弃怜爱他们的主；

那信奉虚无神明的人，丢弃自己的慈爱；

那信奉虚无神明的人，丢弃自己的慈爱；

那些信奉虚无神明的人，背弃了怜爱他们的主，

那敬奉虚妄之偶像的人，实在是离弃了怜爱他们的神（“怜爱他们的神”原文作“他们的恩典”）。

那些信奉虚妄假神的人，他们背弃了对你的忠诚；

那信奉虛無之神的人，離棄憐愛他們的主；

那信奉虛無神明的人，丟棄自己的慈愛；

那信奉虛無神明的人，丟棄自己的慈愛；

那些信奉虛無神明的人，背棄了憐愛他們的主，

那敬奉虛妄之偶像的人，實在是離棄了憐愛他們的神（“憐愛他們的神”原文作“他們的恩典”）。

那些尊重虛而妄之偶像的人撇棄了他們堅貞之愛。

那些信奉虛妄假神的人，他們背棄了對你的忠誠；

凡務虛妄者、乃自絕慈惠、

凡賴虛偽者、棄厥恩主、

惟彼崇事虛偽者、遺棄向彼施恩之主、遺棄向彼施恩之主或作終棄其虔敬

“ Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

Those who worship false gods turn their backs on all God’s mercies.

Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,

Those who are followers of worthless idols Abandon their faithfulness,

“ Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake faithful love,

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

I hate those who worship worthless statues of gods. But I trust in the Lord.

“ My people have sinned twice. They have deserted me, even though I am the spring of water that gives life. And they have dug their own wells. But those wells are broken. They can’t hold any water.

They refused to obey his rules. They broke the covenant he had made with them. They didn’t pay any attention to the rules he had warned them to keep. They worshiped worthless statues of gods. Then they themselves became worthless. They followed the example of the nations around them. They did it even though the Lord had ordered them not to. He had said,“ Do not do as they do.”

All of them are foolish. They don’t have any sense. They think they are taught by worthless wooden gods.

Don’t turn away and worship statues of gods. They are useless. They can’t do you any good. They can’t save you either. They are completely useless.

No one has any sense or knows anything at all. Everyone who works with gold is put to shame by his gods. The metal gods he has made are fakes. They can’t even breathe.They are worthless things that people make fun of. When the Lord judges them, they will be destroyed.

Lord, you give me strength. You are like a fort to me. When I’m in trouble, I go to you for safety. The nations will come to you from one end of the earth to the other. They will gather together and say,“ Our people of long ago didn’t own anything except statues of gods. The statues were worthless. They didn’t do them any good.

“ If someone carves a statue of a god, what is it worth? What value is there in a god that teaches lies? The one who trusts in this kind of god worships his own creation. He makes statues of gods that can’t speak.How terrible it will be for the Babylonians! They say to a wooden god,‘ Come to life!’ They say to a stone god,‘ Wake up!’ Can those gods give advice? They are covered with gold and silver. They can’t even breathe.”The Lord is in his holy temple. Let the whole earth be silent in front of him.