Baruch 6:17
New Revised Standard Version
For just as someone’s dish is useless when it is broken,

New American Bible
Their courtyards are walled in like those of someone brought to execution for a crime against the king; the priests reinforce their temples with gates and bars and bolts, so they will not be carried off by robbers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves.

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And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves.

Baruch 6:15
Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel that a man uses when it is broken becometh useless, even so are their gods:

Baruch 6:16
When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by the feet of them that go in.

Baruch 6:18
They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they cannot see one: but they are like beams in the house.

Baruch 6:19
And they say that the creeping things which are of the earth, gnaw their hearts, while they eat them and their garments, and they feel it not.

Context
Baruch 6
16When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by the feet of them that go in. 17And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves. 18They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they cannot see one: but they are like beams in the house.…
Cross References
Baruch 6:15
Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel that a man uses when it is broken becometh useless, even so are their gods:

Baruch 6:16
When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by the feet of them that go in.

Baruch 6:18
They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they cannot see one: but they are like beams in the house.

Baruch 6:19
And they say that the creeping things which are of the earth, gnaw their hearts, while they eat them and their garments, and they feel it not.



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Baruch 6:16
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