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Habakkuk says an idol is taught by its maker, but it is a mute image and cannot speak. He pronounces woe on the one who says to wood and stone, “Awake” and “Arise,” because there is no breath in it. This is in Habakkuk 2:18–19.
18"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
19Woe to him who says to the wood, `Awake!` or to the mute stone, `Arise!` Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.