Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities.

They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.

Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?

The vain craftsmen with their works, that they in their vanity hath made, shall perish one with another in the time of visitation.

Vain is it; and worthy to be laughed at. And in the time of visitation it shall perish.

To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

Behold, ye gods are of naught, and your making is of naught; yea, abominable is the man that hath chosen you.

But at Gilead is the abomination, they are fallen to vanity. At Gilgal they have slain oxen: and as many heaps of stones as they had in their land furrows, so many altars have they made.

What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?

and saying, "Sirs, why do ye this? We are mortal men like unto you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is,