Letter of Jeremiah 1:24
“Notwithstanding the gold that is about them, to make them beautifull, except they wipe off the rust they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feele it.”
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Letter of Jeremiah 1:24 Context
22Upon their bodies and heads, sit battes, swallowes, and birds, and the cats also. 23By this you may know that they are no gods: therefore feare them not. 24Notwithstanding the gold that is about them, to make them beautifull, except they wipe off the rust they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feele it. 25The things wherein there is no breath, are bought for a most hie price. 26They are borne vpon shoulders, hauing no feete, whereby they declare vnto men that they be nothing worth.
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Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.
- King James Version
Notwithstanding the gold which is around them to make them beautiful, and except that they wipe off the rust, they will not shine, because not even when they were molten did they feel it.
- World English Bible