Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge who set up the wood of their sculptured image, and pray to a god that cannot save.
Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, which said to him, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of your hand?
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which struck him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for those who are escaped of Israel.
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forward their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Those who make a sculptured image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they do not see, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things you carried were heavily loaded; they are a burden to the weary beast.
All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will accomplish his purpose concerning Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
When you cry, let your crowds deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Every man is stupid in his knowledge: every metal worker is put to shame by the sculptured image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
They are upright like the palm tree, but do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: