Letter of Jeremiah 6:16-29
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16 Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not.
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17 For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in.
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18 And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers.
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19 They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one.
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20 They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not.
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21 Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple.
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22 Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also.
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23 By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
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24 Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.
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25 The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price.
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26 They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth.
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27 They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.
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28 As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it.
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29 Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.