Hymn of praise to Yahweh

6 Yahweh, there is no one like you.

You [MTY] are great, and you are very powerful.

7 You are the king of all the nations!

Everyone should [RHQ] revere you,

because that is what you deserve.

Among all the wise people on the earth

and in all the kingdoms where they live,

◄there is no one like you./who can compare with you?►

8 Those people who think that they are very wise [IRO] are stupid and foolish [DOU].

The idols that they worship are only made of wood!

Those idols certainly cannot teach them anything.

9 People hammer into thin sheets silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz,

and then they give those sheets of silver and gold to skilled workers/craftsmen to cover the idols.

Then they put on those idols expensive purple robes

that are made by skilled workers.

10 But Yahweh is the only true God;

he is the all-powerful God,

the king who rules forever.

When he is angry, all the earth shakes/quakes;

and the people of the nations cannot endure what he does when he is angry with them.

11 You Israeli people, tell this to those people: “Those idols did not make the sky and the earth, and they will disappear from the earth.”

12 But Yahweh made the earth by his power;

he established it firmly by his wisdom

and stretched out the sky by his understanding.

13 When he speaks loudly, there is thunder in the sky;

he causes clouds to form over every part of the earth.

He sends lightning with the rain

and releases the winds from his storehouses.

14 People are senseless and know very little [HYP];

those who make idols are always disappointed

because their idols do nothing for them.

The images/statues that they make are not real gods;

they are lifeless.

15 Idols are worthless; they deserve to be ridiculed;

there will be a time when they all will be destroyed.

16 But the God whom we Israelis worship is not like those idols;

he is the one who created everything that exists;

we, the tribe/people of Israel, belong to him;

he is the Commander of the armies of angels.