2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen,

and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;

for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the people are vain:

for one cutteth a tree out of the forest,

the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold;

they fasten it with nails and with hammers,

that it move not.  

Jeremiah 10:2-4