Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry to the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
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.
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place shall he not move: yea, one shall cry out to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths in a way not built up;
But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, to which you have gone to dwell, that you might cut yourselves off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?