11 They will even give some of it to the common prostitutes. They dress them like men with garments, even the gods of silver, gods of gold, and gods of wood. (WEB) 12 Yet these gods can’t save themselves from rust and moths, even though they are covered with purple garments. (WEB) 13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, which is thick upon them. (WEB)
Baruch 6:11–13
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Baruch 6:20–22
20 They are like one of the beams of the temple. Men say their hearts are eaten out when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their clothing. They don’t feel it (WEB) 21 when their faces are blackened through the smoke that comes out of the temple. (WEB) 22 Bats, s… (WEB)
Baruch 6:54–56
54 They can’t judge their own cause, or redress a wrong, being unable; for they are like crows between heaven and earth. (WEB) 55 For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they… (WEB) 56 … (WEB)
Baruch 6:29–31
29 The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices, knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods. Don’t fear them. (WEB) 30 For how can they be called gods? Because women set food before the gods of silver, gold, and wood. (WEB) 31 And in their temp… (WEB)
Baruch 6:16–18
16 By this they are known not to be gods. Therefore don’t fear them. (WEB) 17 For like a vessel that a man uses is worth nothing when it is broken, even so it is with their gods. When they are set up in the temples, their eyes are full of dust through the feet of those wh… (WEB)
Baruch 6:38–40
38 They can show no mercy to the widow, or do good to the fatherless. (WEB) 39 They are like the stones that are cut out of the mountain, these gods of wood that are overlaid with gold and with silver. Those who minister to them will be confounded. (WEB) 40 How could a man then thi… (WEB)
Lamentations 4:13–15
13 But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst. 14 They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments. 15 “Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at…
Baruch 6:70–72
70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood overlaid with gold and silver. (WEB) 71 Likewise also their gods of wood overlaid with gold and with silver are like a white thorn in an orchard that every bird sits upon. They ar… (WEB)
Ezekiel 7:19–21
19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling bl…
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