Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version When one of them is led off by one of the passers-by and is taken to bed by him, she derides the woman next to her, because she was not as attractive as herself and her cord was not broken. New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. Baruch 6:41As 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. Baruch 6:42 The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. Baruch 6:44 But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? Baruch 6:45 And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be. Context Baruch 6…42The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. 43And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. 44But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods?… Cross References 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. Baruch 6:42 The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. Baruch 6:44 But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? Baruch 6:45 And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be. |