Baruch 6:56
New Revised Standard Version
Besides, they can offer no resistance to king or enemy. Why then must anyone admit or think that they are gods?

New American Bible
How then can it be admitted or thought that they are gods? They are safe from neither thieves nor bandits, these wooden and silvered and gilded gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them,

Baruch 6:54
For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood, and of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be saved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams.

Baruch 6:55
And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods?

Baruch 6:57
Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves.

Baruch 6:58
Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods.

Context
Baruch 6
55And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods? 56Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them, 57Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves.…
Cross References
Baruch 6:54
For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood, and of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be saved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams.

Baruch 6:55
And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods?

Baruch 6:57
Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves.

Baruch 6:58
Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods.



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Baruch 6:55
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