Baruch 6:28–36

²⁸And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend. In like manner, their wives also lay up part of it in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they give none of it.↗

²⁹The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices, knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods. Don’t fear them.↗

³⁰For how can they be called gods? Because women set food before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.↗

³¹And in their temples the priests sit on seats, having their clothes torn and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing on their heads.↗

³²They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.↗

³³The priests also take off garments from them and clothe their wives and children with them.↗

³⁴Whether it is evil or good what one does to them, they are not able to repay it. They can’t set up a king or put him down.↗

³⁵In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money. Though a man make a vow to them and doesn’t keep it, they will never exact it.↗

³⁶They can save no man from death. They can’t deliver the weak from the mighty.↗