Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version These things that are made of wood and overlaid with gold and silver are like stones from the mountain, and those who serve them will be put to shame. New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods? Baruch 6:37They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless. Baruch 6:38 Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded. Baruch 6:40 Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak. Baruch 6:41 As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense. Context Baruch 6…38Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded. 39How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods? 40Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak.… Cross References Baruch 6:37 They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless. Baruch 6:38 Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded. Baruch 6:40 Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak. Baruch 6:41 As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense. |
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