22 Bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads. So do the cats. (WEB) 23 By this you may know that they are no gods. Therefore don’t fear them. (WEB) 24 Notwithstanding the gold with which they are covered to make them beautiful, unless someone wipes off the tarnish, they won’t shine; for they didn’t even feel it when they were molten. (WEB)
Baruch 6:22–24
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Baruch 6:15–17
15 He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe, but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers. (WEB) 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… (WEB)
Baruch 6:55–57
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 ad… (WEB)
Baruch 6:68–70
68 The beasts are better than they; for they can get under a covert, and help themselves. (WEB) 69 In no way then is it manifest to us that they are gods. Therefore don’t fear them. (WEB) 70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood o… (WEB)
Baruch 6:64–66
64 Therefore a man shouldn’t think or say that they are gods, seeing they aren’t able to judge causes or to do good to men. (WEB) 65 Knowing therefore that they are no gods, don’t fear them. (WEB) 66 For they can neither curse nor bless kings. (WEB)
Baruch 6:43–45
43 The women also with cords around them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense; but if any of them, drawn by someone who passes by, lies with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself and her cord wasn’t broken. (WEB) 44 Whatever is… (WEB)
Baruch 6:36–38
36 They can save no man from death. They can’t deliver the weak from the mighty. (WEB) 37 They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, or deliver anyone who is in distress. (WEB) 38 They can show no mercy to the widow, or do good to the fatherless. (WEB)
Baruch 6:11–13
11 They will even give some of it to the common prostitutes. They dress them like men with garments, even the gods of silver, gods of gold, and gods of wood. (WEB) 12 Yet these gods can’t save themselves from rust and moths, even though they are covered with purple garmen… (WEB)
Psalms 135:16–18
16 They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; 17 they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
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