Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Like a thornbush in a garden upon which every species of bird perches, or like a corpse thrown out into the darkness, are these wooden gods overlaid with gold and silver.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed, which guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed, that guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed, which guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Just like a thornbush in a garden on which perches every kind of bird, or like a corpse hurled into darkness, are their wooden, gilded, silvered gods.