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x.xxiv.xi-p8.3

x.xxiv.xi-p8.362 words

5. upright—or, "They are of turned work, resembling a palm tree" [Maurer]. The point of comparison between the idol and the palm is in the pillar-like uprightness of the latter, it having no branches except at the top.

speak not—(Ps 115:5).

cannot go—that is, walk (Ps 115:7; Isa 46:1, 7).

neither … do good—(Isa 41:23).