[2] Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. [3] For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. [4] They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move [5] They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.