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 who come in. (WEB)
Baruch 6:17
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Isaiah 37:18–20
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Baruch 6:70–72
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Jeremiah 10:4–6
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Baruch 6:38–40
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Baruch 6:26–28
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Wisdom of Solomon 15:14–16
14 But most foolish and more miserable than a baby, are the enemies of your people, who oppressed them; (WEB) 15 because they even considered all the idols of the nations to be gods, which have neither the use of eyes for seeing, nor nostrils for drawing breath, nor ears… (WEB) 16 … (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)
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