My people will live in peaceful dwellings, in secure homes and in undisturbed resting places.

Thorns will grow over its palaces, nettles and brambles its fortresses. It will become a haunt for jackals, a home for ostriches.

King Sennacherib broke camp, retreated, returned home to Nineveh, and remained there.

The carpenter measures it with a line; he traces its shape with a stylus, then fashions it with planes and shapes it with a compass. He makes the idol like a human figure, with human beauty, to be at home in a shrine.