El Elohe Yahshrael!

Wisdom of Solomon 14: 12For the devising of idols was the beginning of fornication,
And the invention of them the corruption of life:
13For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever;
14For by the vaingloriousness of men they entered into the world,
And therefore was a speedy end devised for them.
15For a father worn with untimely grief,
Making an image of the child quickly taken away,
Now honored him as a god which was then a dead man,
And delivered to those that were under him mysteries and solemn rites.
16Afterward the ungodly custom, in process of time grown strong, was kept as a law,
And by the commandments of princes the graven images received worship.
17And when men could not honor them in presence because they lived far off,
Imagining the likeness from afar,
They made a visible image of the king whom they honored,
That by their zeal they might flatter the absent as if present.
18But to a yet higher pitch was worship raised even by them that knew him not,
Urged forward by the ambition of the artificer:
19For he, wishing perhaps to please one in authority,
Used his are to force the likeness toward a greater beauty;
20And the multitude, allured by reason of the grace of his handywork,
Now accounted as an object of devotion him that a little before was honored as a man.
21And this became a hidden danger to life,
Because men, in bondage either to calamity or to tyranny,
Invested stones and stocks with the incommunicable Name.

El Elohe Yahshrael! Hallelu Yah!

Succinctly put.