They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Upright, х miqshaah (H4749)] - 'Made of one solid piece,' one Rabbi translates it, or, 'They are of turned work, resembling a palm tree' (Maurer). The point of comparison between the idol and the palm was in the pillar-like uprightness and plain smoothness of the latter, it having no branches except at the top.
Speak not - (Psalms 115:5).
Cannot go - i:e., walk (Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 46:7, "Their idols are a burden to the weary beast ... They bear (the idol) upon their shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth: from his place shall he not remove").
Neither also is it in them to do good - (Isaiah 41:23, "That we may know ye are gods; yea, do good, or do evil," etc.)