Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves,

2 For that vessel the hunger for gains devised,

3 And thy providence, O Father, guideth it along,

4 Showing that thou canst save out of every danger,

5 And it is thy will that the works of thy wisdom should be not idle;

6 For in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing,

7 For blessed hath been wood through which cometh righteousness:

8 But the idol made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it;

9 For both the ungodly doer and his ungodliness are alike hateful to God;

10 For verily the deed shall be punished together with him that committed it.

11 Therefore also among the idols of the nations shall there be a visitation,

12 For the devising of idols was the beginning of fornication,

13 For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be forever;

14 For by the vaingloriousness of men they entered into the world,

15 For a father worn with untimely grief,

16 Afterward the ungodly custom, in process of time grown strong, was kept as a law,

17 And when men could not honor them in presence because they dwelt far off,

18 But unto a yet higher pitch was worship raised even by them that knew him not,

19 For he, wishing peradventure to please one in authority,

20 And the multitude, allured by reason of the grace of his handiwork,

21 And this became a hidden danger unto life,

22 Afterward it was not enough for them to go astray as touching the knowledge of God;

23 For either slaughtering children in solemn rites, or celebrating secret mysteries,

24 No longer do they guard either life or purity of marriage,

25 And all things confusedly are filled with blood and murder, theft and deceit,

26 turmoil,

27 For the worship of those nameless idols

28 For their worshipers either make merry unto madness, or prophesy lies,

29 For putting their trust in lifeless idols,

30 But for both sins shall the just doom pursue them,

31 For it is not the power of them by whom men swear,