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)
Baruch 6:70
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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)
Jeremiah 10:4–6
4 They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter. 5 Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and nei…
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)
Habakkuk 2:18–20
18 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold,… 20 …
Isaiah 41:28–29
28 When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say. 29 See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
Baruch 6:56–58
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) 58 The gold, silver, and garments with which they are clo… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 13:9–11
9 For if they had power to know so much, that they should be able to explore the world, how is it that they didn’t find the Sovereign Lord sooner? (WEB) 10 But they were miserable, and their hopes were in dead things, who called them gods which are works of men’s hands,… (WEB) 11 … (WEB)
Baruch 6:7–9
7 For my angel is with you, and I myself care for your souls. (WEB) 8 For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet they are only fake, and can’t speak. (WEB) 9 And taking gold, as if it were for a virgin who loves t… (WEB)
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