Letter of Jeremiah 1:8
“As for their tongue, it is polished by the workeman, and they themselues are guilded and laid ouer with siluer, yet are they but false and cannot speake.”
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Letter of Jeremiah 1:8 Context
6But say yee in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee. 7For mine Angel is with you, and I my selfe caring for your soules. 8As for their tongue, it is polished by the workeman, and they themselues are guilded and laid ouer with siluer, yet are they but false and cannot speake. 9And taking golde, as it were for a virgine that loues to go gay, they make crownes for the heads of their gods. 10Sometimes also the Priests conuey from their gods golde and siluer, and bestow it vpon themselues.
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As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.
- King James Version
'As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and overlain with silver; yet they are only false and cannot speak.
- World English Bible