Baruch 6:37–45
37They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, or deliver anyone who is in distress.↗
38They can show no mercy to the widow, or do good to the fatherless.↗
39They 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.↗
40How could a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them?↗
41If they shall see one mute who can’t speak, they bring him and ask him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand.↗
42Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them; for they have no understanding.↗
43The 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.↗
44Whatever is done among them is false. How could a man then think or say that they are gods?↗
45They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths. They can be nothing else than what the workmen make them to be.↗
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