Jeremiah 51:16-18

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁶ When he thunders, the waters in the skies roar.
    He sends clouds all over the earth.
He sends lightning with the rain.
    He brings out the wind from his storehouses.
¹⁷ But people are so stupid.
    They don’t understand what God has done.
Skilled workers make statues of false gods.
    Those statues are only false gods.
They show how foolish those workers are.
    Those statues are not alive.
¹⁸ Those idols are worthless.
    People made them, and they are nothing but a joke.
Their time of judgment will come,
    and those idols will be destroyed.