Letter of Jeremiah 1:29

Letter of Jeremiah 1:29 Context

²⁶They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth. ²⁷They 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. ²⁸As 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. ²⁹Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not. ³⁰For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood. ³¹And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. ³²They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

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