Letter of Jeremiah 1:9
“And taking golde, as it were for a virgine that loues to go gay, they make crownes for the heads of their gods.”
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Letter of Jeremiah 1:9 Context
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. 11Yea they will giue thereof to the common harlots, and decke them as men with garments [being] gods of siluer, and gods of gold, and wood.
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And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.
- King James Version
And taking gold, as if for a virgin who loves to put herself on display, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.
- World English Bible