26 Accordingly they took the young bull that he gave them. Then they dressed it, and they kept calling upon the name of Baʹal from morning till noon, saying: “O Baʹal, answer us!” But there was no voice,+ and there was no one answering.+ And they kept limping around the altar that they had made.

17 They must be turned back, they will be very much ashamed, those who are putting trust in the carved image,+ those who are saying to a molten image: “YOU are our gods.”*+

2 “Tell [it] among the nations and publish [it].+ And lift up a signal;*+ publish [it]. Hide nothing, O men. Say, ‘Babylon has been captured.+ Bel* has been put to shame.+ Merʹo·dach has become terrified. Her images have been put to shame.+ Her dungy idols have become terrified.’