Likewise their wives preserve some of the meat with salt, but give none to the poor or helpless. 28 The priests sell the sacrifices that are offered to these gods and use the money themselves. Gifts are placed before them just as before the dead. If anyone sets it upright, it cannot move itself and if it is tipped over, it cannot straighten itself. And those who serve them are put to shame 27 because, if any of these gods falls to the ground, they themselves must pick it up. 26 Having no feet, they are carried on the shoulders of others, revealing to humankind their worthlessness. 25 They are bought without regard to cost, but there is no breath in them. 23 From this you will know that they are not gods so do not fear them.Ģ4 As for the gold that they wear for beauty-it will not shine unless someone wipes off the tarnish for even when they were being cast, they did not feel it. 22 Bats, swallows, and birds alight on their bodies and heads and so do cats. They do not notice 21 when their faces have been blackened by the smoke of the temple. 20 They are just like a beam of the temple, but their hearts, it is said, are eaten away when crawling creatures from the earth devour them and their robes. 19 They light more lamps for them than they light for themselves, though their gods can see none of them. And just as the gates are shut on every side against anyone who has offended a king, as though under sentence of death, so the priests make their temples secure with doors and locks and bars, in order that they may not be plundered by robbers.
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Their eyes are full of the dust raised by the feet of those who enter. 16 From this it is evident that they are not gods so do not fear them.ġ7 For just as someone’s dish is useless when it is broken, 18 so are their gods when they have been set up in the temples. 15 Another has a dagger in its right hand, and an ax, but cannot defend itself from war and robbers. 14 One of them holds a scepter, like a district judge, but is unable to destroy anyone who offends it. When they have been dressed in purple robes, 13 their faces are wiped because of the dust from the temple, which is thick upon them. They deck their gods out with garments like human beings-these gods of silver and gold and wood 12 that cannot save themselves from rust and corrosion. 10 Sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it on themselves, 11 or even give some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. 9 People take gold and make crowns for the heads of their gods, as they might for a girl who loves ornaments. The Helplessness of IdolsĨ Their tongues are smoothed by the carpenter, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and silver but they are false and cannot speak. But say in your heart, “It is you, O Lord, whom we must worship.” 7 For my angel is with you, and he is watching over your lives. 5 So beware of becoming at all like the foreigners or of letting fear for these gods possess you 6 when you see the multitude before and behind them worshiping them. 4 Now in Babylon you will see gods made of silver and gold and wood, which people carry on their shoulders, and which cause the heathen to fear. 3 Therefore when you have come to Babylon you will remain there for many years, for a long time, up to seven generations after that I will bring you away from there in peace. The People Face a Long CaptivityĢ Because of the sins that you have committed before God, you will be taken to Babylon as exiles by Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians. 6 A copy of a letter that Jeremiah sent to those who were to be taken to Babylon as exiles by the king of the Babylonians, to give them the message that God had commanded him.
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