Letter of Jeremiah 1:42

Letter of Jeremiah 1:42 Context

³⁹Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded. ⁴⁰How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them? ⁴¹Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand. ⁴²Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge. ⁴³The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. ⁴⁴Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods? ⁴⁵They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

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