• Daniel 5:23
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 23 Instead, you exalted yourself against the Lord of the heavens,+ and you had them bring you the vessels of his house.+ Then you and your nobles, your concubines and your secondary wives drank wine from them and praised gods of silver and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, gods that see nothing and hear nothing and know nothing.+ But you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath+ and all your ways.

  • Habakkuk 2:18, 19
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 18 Of what benefit is a carved image

      When its maker has carved it?

      Of what benefit is a metal statue* and a teacher of lies,

      Even though its maker trusts in it,

      Making worthless gods that are speechless?+

      19 Woe to the one who says to a piece of wood, “Awake!”

      Or to a speechless stone, “Wake up! Instruct us!”

      Look! It is overlaid in gold and silver,+

      And there is no breath at all within it.+