What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
What profiteth the graven image ... The powerlessness of the idols to save Babylon from its doom is a fitting What profiteth the graven image ... The powerlessness of the idols to save Babylon from its doom is a fitting introduction to the last stanza (Habakkuk 2:19), which, as the former four, begins with "Woe."
The molten image, and a teacher of lies - its priests and prophets uttering lying oracles, as if from it.
That the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Though men can "make" idols, they cannot make them to speak.