以賽亞書44:9-20

44:9 製造雕刻偶像的盡都虛空；他們所喜悅的都無益處；他們的見證無所看見，無所知曉，他們便覺羞愧。
44:10 誰製造神像，鑄造無益的偶像？
44:11 看哪，他的同伴都必羞愧。工匠也不過是人，任他們聚會，任他們站立，都必懼怕，一同羞愧。
44:12 鐵匠把鐵在火炭中燒熱，用鎚打鐵器，用他有力的膀臂錘成；他飢餓而無力，不喝水而發倦。
44:13 木匠拉線，用筆劃出樣子，用鉋子鉋成形狀，用圓尺劃了模樣，仿照人的體態，做成人形，好住在房屋中。
44:14 他砍伐香柏樹，又取柞（或譯：青桐）樹和橡樹，在樹林中選定了一棵。他栽種松樹，得雨長養。
44:15 這樹，人可用以燒火；他自己取些烤火，又燒著烤餅，而且做神像跪拜，做雕刻的偶像向它叩拜。
44:16 他把一分燒在火中，把一分烤肉吃飽。自己烤火說：「啊哈，我暖和了，我見火了。」
44:17 他用剩下的做了一神，就是雕刻的偶像。他向這偶像俯伏叩拜，禱告它說：「求你拯救我，因你是我的神。」
44:18 他們不知道，也不思想；因為耶和華閉住他們的眼，不能看見，塞住他們的心，不能明白。
44:19 誰心裡也不醒悟，也沒有知識，沒有聰明，能說：「我曾拿一分在火中燒了，在炭火上烤過餅；我也烤過肉吃。這剩下的，我豈要作可憎的物嗎？我豈可向木墩子叩拜呢？」
44:20 他以灰為食，心中昏迷，使他偏邪，他不能自救，也不能說：「我右手中豈不是有虛謊嗎？」

⁹ All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know. And so they will be put to shame. ¹⁰Who would fashion a god or cast an image that can do no good? ¹¹Look, all its devotees shall be put to shame; the artisans too are merely human. Let them all assemble, let them stand up; they shall be terrified, they shall all be put to shame.

¹² The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals, shaping it with hammers, and forging it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint. ¹³The carpenter stretches a line, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he makes it in human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine. ¹⁴He cuts down cedars or chooses a holm tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it. ¹⁵Then it can be used as fuel. Part of it he takes and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it, makes it a carved image and bows down before it. ¹⁶Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he roasts meat, eats it and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Ah, I am warm, I can feel the fire!” ¹⁷The rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, bows down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god!”

¹⁸ They do not know, nor do they comprehend; for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand. ¹⁹No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted meat and have eaten. Now shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” ²⁰He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

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    先知用幽默的筆法來說明偶像是人造出來的，是和一般人燒柴用的木頭並沒有兩樣。所以，拜偶像是一種不智的行為，是將自己降卑的行為，讓自己比木頭還小，那是違反上帝造人的目的！也因此，上帝不僅是維護自己的尊嚴，更是維護我們的尊嚴，所以不可以拜偶像。

    所以，拜偶像的人在先知的眼中是頭腦有問題的人，因為這等人是思想混亂，「他們不知道，也不思想；因為耶和華閉住他們的眼，不能看見，塞住他們的心，不能明白。」

    其實不管是拜怎樣的偶像，都是愚昧無知，因為這些都是上帝所造的，怎能保護我們，滿足我們心裡真正的需要，使我們喜樂充足！也因此，我們要遠離偶像來親近上帝，唯有上帝才是真神，其他之外沒有神了！