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 themselves will be burned apart like beams. (WEB) 56 Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies. How could a man then admit or think that they are gods? (WEB) 57 Those gods of wood overlaid with silver or with gold aren’t able to escape from thieves or robbers. (WEB)
Baruch 6:55–57
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Baruch 6:11–13
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Baruch 6:45–47
45 They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths. They can be nothing else than what the workmen make them to be. (WEB) 46 And they themselves who fashioned them can never continue long. How then should the things that are fashioned by them? (WEB) 47 For they have left lies and r… (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)
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 6:70–72
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)
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)
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