Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen…
 
For
the cus-
toms 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. They deck it with silver
and with gold; they fasten it with
nails and with hammers, that it move
not. They are upright as the palm tree,
but speak not: they must needs be borne,
because they cannot go. Be not afraid of
them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is
it in them
to do good.

Jeremiah 10:2a, 3-5