Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version For just as someone’s dish is useless when it is broken, New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 6:15Therefore 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. |