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

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.

“ Some people worship the worthless statues of their gods. They 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 regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

I hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD.

“ Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Then I said,“ LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘ Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?The one who says to wood,‘ Wake up!’ is as good as dead– he who says to speechless stone,‘ Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.But the LORD is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!”