Hakim-hakim 10:14

10:14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!” ¹ 

Yesaya 40:19

40:19 A craftsman casts ²  an idol;

a metalsmith overlays it with gold

and forges silver chains for it.

Yeremia 5:21

5:21 Tell them: ‘Hear this,

you foolish people who have no understanding,

who have eyes but do not discern,

who have ears but do not perceive: ³ 

Yeremia 14:22

14:22 Do any of the worthless idols ⁴  of the nations cause rain to fall?

Do the skies themselves send showers?

Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? ⁵ 

So we put our hopes in you ⁶ 

because you alone do all this.”

[10:14]  ¹ tn Heb “in your time of trouble.”

[40:19]  ² tn Heb “pours out”; KJV “melteth.”

[5:21]  ³ tn Heb “they have eyes but they do not see, they have ears but they do not hear.”

[14:22]  ⁴ tn The word הֶבֶל (hevel), often translated “vanities”, is a common pejorative epithet for idols or false gods. See already in 8:19 and 10:8.

[14:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “Is it not you, O Lord our God?” The words “who does” are supplied in the translation for English style.

[14:22]  ⁶ tn The rhetorical negatives are balanced by a rhetorical positive.