Jeremías 2:28

"Let your idols save you, then," the Lord responded. Obviously the idols could not save the people, since the people had "created" the so-called "gods," the idols; the gods had not made the people and therefore could not help them. Wood and stone cannot arise to save, and neither can the idols made from these materials. The number of idols in Judah in Jeremiah’s day was the same as the number of her cities. This is a hyperbolic way of saying that idolatry was rampant throughout the land.