Exodus 20:4-5

4 a“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 bYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ca jealous God, dvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Isaiah 40:18-25

18 eTo whom then will you liken God,
for what likeness compare with him?
19 gAn idol! A craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.
20 hHe who is too impoverished for an offering
chooses wood
Or  He chooses valuable wood
that will not rot;
he seeks out a skillful craftsman
to set up an idol that will not move.
21 jDo you not know? Do you not hear?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are klike grasshoppers;
lwho stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
23 mwho brings princes to nothing,
and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
nand the tempest carries them off like stubble.
25 oTo whom then will you compare me,
that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
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