Baruch 1:1 i Baruch 1:8

The Book of Baruch

1 And these are the words of the book, which
Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the
son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of
Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,
2 In the fifth year, and in the seventh day
of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took
Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
3 And Baruch did read the words of this book in
the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joachim king
of Juda, and in the ears of all the people that came
to hear the book,
4 And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the
king’s sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and
of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest,
even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river
Sud.
5 Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed be-
fore the Lord.
6 They made also a collection of money accord-
ing to every man’s power:
7 And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the
high priest, the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and
to the priests, and to all the people which were
found with him at Jerusalem,
8 At the same time when he received the vessels
of the house of the Lord, that were carried out of
the temple, to return them into the land of Juda,
the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver
vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of
Juda had made,
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9 After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon

had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and
the captives, and the mighty men, and the people
of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them
unto Babylon.
10 And they said, Behold, we have sent you
money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offer-
ings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and
offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;
11 And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son,
that their days may be upon earth as the days of
heaven:
12 And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten
our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the
shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve
them many days, and find favour in their sight.
13 Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we
have sinned against the Lord our God; and unto
this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not
turned from us.
14 And ye shall read this book which we have
sent unto you, to make confession in the house of
the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days.
15 And ye shall say, To the Lord our God be-
longeth righteousness, but unto us the confusion
of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of
Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
16 And to our kings, and to our princes, and
to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our
fathers:
17 For we have sinned before the Lord,
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18 And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened

unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the
commandments that he gave us openly:
19 Since the day that the Lord brought our fore-
fathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present
day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our
God, and we have been negligent in not hearing
his voice.
20 Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the
curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his
servant at the time that he brought our fathers out
of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth
with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.
21 Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the
voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the
words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us:
22 But every man followed the imagination of
his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and
to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

1 Therefore
2
the Lord hath made good his word,
which he pronounced against us, and against our
judges that judged Israel, and against our kings,
and against our princes, and against the men of
Israel and Juda,
2 To bring upon us great plagues, such as never
happened under the whole heaven, as it came to
pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that
were written in the law of Moses;
3 That a man should eat the flesh of his own son,
and the flesh of his own daughter.
4 Moreover he hath delivered them to be in sub-
jection to all the kingdoms that are round about
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us, to be as a reproach and desolation among

all the people round about, where the Lord hath
scattered them.
5 Thus we were cast down, and not exalted,
because we have sinned against the Lord our God,
and have not been obedient unto his voice.
6 To the Lord our God appertaineth righteous-
ness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame,
as appeareth this day.
7 For all these plagues are come upon us, which
the Lord hath pronounced against us
8 Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that
we might turn every one from the imaginations of
his wicked heart.
9 Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil,
and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the
Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath
commanded us.
10 Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to
walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he
hath set before us.
11 And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast
brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with
a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and
with wonders, and with great power, and hast
gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:
12 O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have
done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all
thine ordinances.
13 Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but
a few left among the heathen, where thou hast
scattered us.
14 Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions,
and deliver us for thine own sake, and give us
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favour in the sight of them which have led us

away:
15 That all the earth may know that thou art the
Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is
called by thy name.
16 O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and
consider us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear
us.
17 Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that
are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their
bodies, will give unto the Lord neither praise nor
righteousness:
18 But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth
stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the
hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteous-
ness, O Lord.
19 Therefore we do not make our humble sup-
plication before thee, O Lord our God, for the
righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
20 For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indigna-
tion upon us, as thou hast spoken by thy servants
the prophets, saying,
21 Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoul-
ders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye
remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers.
22 But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to
serve the king of Babylon,
23 I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah,
and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth,
and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride: and the whole land
shall be desolate of inhabitants.
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24 But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to

serve the king of Babylon: therefore hast thou
made good the words that thou spakest by thy
servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of
our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be
taken out of their place.
25 And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day,
and to the frost of the night, and they died in great
miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.
26 And the house which is called by thy name
hast thou laid waste, as it is to be seen this day,
for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the
house of Juda.
27 O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after
all thy goodness, and according to all that great
mercy of thine,
28 As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the
day when thou didst command him to write the
law before the children of Israel, saying,
29 If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very
great multitude shall be turned into a small num-
ber among the nations, where I will scatter them.
30 For I knew that they would not hear me, be-
cause it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of
their captivities they shall remember themselves.
31 And shall know that I am the Lord their God:
for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:
32 And they shall praise me in the land of their
captivity, and think upon my name,
33 And return from their stiff neck, and from
their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the
way of their fathers, which sinned before the
Lord.
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34 And I will bring them again into the land

which I promised with an oath unto their fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords
of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not
be diminished.
35 And I will make an everlasting covenant with
them to be their God, and they shall be my people:
and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of
the land that I have given them.

3
1 O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in
anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.
2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for thou art
merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have
sinned before thee.
3 For thou endurest for ever, and we perish
utterly.
4 O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now
the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their
children, which have sinned before thee, and not
hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the
which cause these plagues cleave unto us.
5 Remember not the iniquities of our forefa-
thers: but think upon thy power and thy name
now at this time.
6 For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O
Lord, will we praise.
7 And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in
our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon
thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for
we have called to mind all the iniquity of our
forefathers, that sinned before thee.
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8 Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity,

where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and
a curse, and to be subject to payments, according
to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed
from the Lord our God.
9 Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give
ear to understand wisdom.
10 How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine
enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange
country, that thou art defiled with the dead,
11 That thou art counted with them that go down
into the grave?
12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God,
thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.
14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength,
where is understanding; that thou mayest know
also where is length of days, and life, where is the
light of the eyes, and peace.
15 Who hath found out her place? or who hath
come into her treasures?
16 Where are the princes of the heathen become,
and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;
17 They that had their pastime with the fowls
of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and
gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their
getting?
18 For they that wrought in silver, and were so
careful, and whose works are unsearchable,
19 They are vanished and gone down to the
grave, and others are come up in their steads.
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20 Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon

the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not
known,
21 Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid
hold of it: their children were far off from that
way.
22 It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither
hath it been seen in Theman.
23 The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth,
the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the au-
thors of fables, and searchers out of understand-
ing; none of these have known the way of wisdom,
or remember her paths.
24 O Israel, how great is the house of God! and
how large is the place of his possession!
25 Great, and hath none end; high, and unmea-
surable.
26 There were the giants famous from the begin-
ning, that were of so great stature, and so expert
in war.
27 Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave
he the way of knowledge unto them:
28 But they were destroyed, because they had no
wisdom, and perished through their own foolish-
ness.
29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her,
and brought her down from the clouds?
30 Who hath gone over the sea, and found her,
and will bring her for pure gold?
31 No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her
path.
32 But he that knoweth all things knoweth her,
and hath found her out with his understanding:
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he that prepared the earth for evermore hath

filled it with fourfooted beasts:
33 He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, cal-
leth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear.
34 The stars shined in their watches, and re-
joiced: when he calleth them, they say, Here we
be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light
unto him that made them.
35 This is our God, and there shall none other be
accounted of in comparison of him
36 He hath found out all the way of knowledge,
and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to
Israel his beloved.
37 Afterward did he shew himself upon earth,
and conversed with men.

4
1 This is the book of the commandments of God,
and the law that endureth for ever: all they that
keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall
die.
2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in
the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest
be illuminated.
3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the
things that are profitable unto thee to a strange
nation.
4 O Israel, happy are we: for things that are
pleasing to God are made known unto us.
5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of
Israel.
6 Ye were sold to the nations, not for your de-
struction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye
were delivered unto the enemies.
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7 For ye provoked him that made you by sacri-

ficing unto devils, and not to God.
8 Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that
brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem,
that nursed you.
9 For when she saw the wrath of God coming
upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about
Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
10 For I saw the captivity of my sons and daugh-
ters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
11 With joy did I nourish them; but sent them
away with weeping and mourning.
12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and
forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children
am left desolate; because they departed from the
law of God.
13 They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the
ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths
of discipline in his righteousness.
14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and
remember ye the captivity of my sons and daugh-
ters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon
them.
15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from
far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language,
who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
16 These have carried away the dear beloved
children of the widow, and left her that was alone
desolate without daughters.
17 But what can I help you?
18 For he that brought these plagues upon you
will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.
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19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for

I am left desolate.
20 I have put off the clothing of peace, and put
upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry
unto the Everlasting in my days.
21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the
Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and
hand of the enemies.
22 For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will
save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy
One, because of the mercy which shall soon come
unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.
23 For I sent you out with mourning and weep-
ing: but God will give you to me again with joy and
gladness for ever.
24 Like as now the neighbours of Sion have
seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your
salvation from our God which shall come upon
you with great glory, and brightness of the Ever-
lasting.
25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is
come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath
persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his
destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.
26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and
were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.
27 Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry
unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that
brought these things upon you.
28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God:
so, being returned, seek him ten times more.
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29 For he that hath brought these plagues upon

you shall bring you everlasting joy with your sal-
vation.
30 Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that
gave thee that name will comfort thee.
31 Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and
rejoiced at thy fall.
32 Miserable are the cities which thy children
served: miserable is she that received thy sons.
33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad
of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own
desolation.
34 For I will take away the rejoicing of her great
multitude, and her pride shall be turned into
mourning.
35 For fire shall come upon her from the Ever-
lasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited
of devils for a great time.
36 O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east,
and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from
God.
37 Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away,
they come gathered together from the east to the
west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the
glory of God.

5
1 Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning
and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the
glory that cometh from God for ever.
2 Cast about thee a double garment of the righ-
teousness which cometh from God; and set a dia-
dem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting.
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3 For God will shew thy brightness unto every

country under heaven.
4 For thy name shall be called of God for ever
The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God’s
worship.
5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look
about toward the east, and behold thy children
gathered from the west unto the east by the word
of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of
God.
6 For they departed from thee on foot, and were
led away of their enemies: but God bringeth them
unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the
kingdom.
7 For God hath appointed that every high hill,
and banks of long continuance, should be cast
down, and valleys filled up, to make even the
ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of
God,
8 Moreover even the woods and every sweet-
smelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the com-
mandment of God.
9 For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light
of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that
cometh from him.
The Epistle of Jeremy
6
A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto
them which were to be led captives into Babylon by
the king of the Babilonians, to certify them, as it was
commanded him of God.
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1 A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto

them which were to be led captives into Babylon
by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as
it was commanded him of God.
2 Because of the sins which ye have committed
before God, ye shall be led away captives into
Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylo-
nians.
3 So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall
remain there many years, and for a long season,
namely, seven generations: and after that I will
bring you away peaceably from thence.
4 Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver,
and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders,
which cause the nations to fear.
5 Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to
strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye
see the multitude before them and behind them,
worshipping them.
6 But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must
worship thee.
7 For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring
for your souls.
8 As for their tongue, it is polished by the work-
man, and they themselves are gilded and laid over
with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot
speak.
9 And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that
loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads
of their gods.
10 Sometimes also the priests convey from their
gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon them-
selves.
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11 Yea, they will give thereof to the common

harlots, and deck them as men with garments,
being gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood.
12 Yet cannot these gods save themselves from
rust and moth, though they be covered with pur-
ple raiment.
13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of
the temple, when there is much upon them.
14 And he that cannot put to death one that
offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he
were a judge of the country.
15 He hath also in his right hand a dagger and
an ax: but cannot deliver himself from war and
thieves.
16 Whereby they are known not to be gods:
therefore fear them not.
17 For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing
worth when it is broken; even so it is with their
gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes
be full of dust through the feet of them that come
in.
18 And as the doors are made sure on every
side upon him that offendeth the king, as being
committed to suffer death: even so the priests
make fast their temples with doors, with locks,
and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers.
19 They light them candles, yea, more than for
themselves, whereof they cannot see one.
20 They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet
they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things
creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them
and their clothes, they feel it not.
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21 Their faces are blacked through the smoke

that cometh out of the temple.
22 Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swal-
lows, and birds, and the cats also.
23 By this ye may know that they are no gods:
therefore fear them not.
24 Notwithstanding the gold that is about them
to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the
rust, they will not shine: for neither when they
were molten did they feel it.
25 The things wherein there is no breath are
bought for a most high price.
26 They are borne upon shoulders, having no
feet whereby they declare unto men that they be
nothing worth.
27 They also that serve them are ashamed: for
if they fall to the ground at any time, they can-
not rise up again of themselves: neither, if one
set them upright, can they move of themselves:
neither, if they be bowed down, can they make
themselves straight: but they set gifts before them
as unto dead men.
28 As for the things that are sacrificed unto them,
their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their
wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor
and impotent they give nothing of it.
29 Menstruous women and women in childbed
eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know
that they are no gods: fear them not.
30 For how can they be called gods? because
women set meat before the gods of silver, gold,
and wood.
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31 And the priests sit in their temples, having

their clothes rent, and their heads and beards
shaven, and nothing upon their heads.
32 They roar and cry before their gods, as men
do at the feast when one is dead.
33 The priests also take off their garments, and
clothe their wives and children.
34 Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them,
or good, they are not able to recompense it: they
can neither set up a king, nor put him down.
35 In like manner, they can neither give riches
nor money: though a man make a vow unto them,
and keep it not, they will not require it.
36 They can save no man from death, neither
deliver the weak from the mighty.
37 They cannot restore a blind man to his sight,
nor help any man in his distress.
38 They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do
good to the fatherless.
39 Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid
with gold and silver, are like the stones that be
hewn out of the mountain: they that worship
them shall be confounded.
40 How should a man then think and say that
they are gods, when even the Chaldeans them-
selves dishonour them?
41 Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot
speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may
speak, as though he were able to understand.
42 Yet they cannot understand this themselves,
and leave them: for they have no knowledge.
43 The women also with cords about them, sit-
ting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any
Baruch 6:44 xix Baruch 6:54

of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with

him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not
thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
44 Whatsoever is done among them is false: how
may it then be thought or said that they are gods?
45 They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths:
they can be nothing else than the workmen will
have them to be.
46 And they themselves that made them can
never continue long; how should then the things
that are made of them be gods?
47 For they left lies and reproaches to them that
come after.
48 For when there cometh any war or plague
upon them, the priests consult with themselves,
where they may be hidden with them.
49 How then cannot men perceive that they be
no gods, which can neither save themselves from
war, nor from plague?
50 For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid
with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter
that they are false:
51 And it shall manifestly appear to all nations
and kings that they are no gods, but the works of
men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in
them.
52 Who then may not know that they are no
gods?
53 For neither can they set up a king in the land,
nor give rain unto men.
54 Neither can they judge their own cause, nor
redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as
crows between heaven and earth.
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55 Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house

of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver,
their priests will flee away, and escape; but they
themselves shall be burned asunder like beams.
56 Moreover they cannot withstand any king or
enemies: how can it then be thought or said that
they be gods?
57 Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over
with silver or gold, able to escape either from
thieves or robbers.
58 Whose gold, and silver, and garments where-
with they are clothed, they that are strong take,
and go away withal: neither are they able to help
themselves.
59 Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth
his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house,
which the owner shall have use of, than such false
gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such
things therein, than such false gods. or a pillar of
wood in a a palace, than such false gods.
60 For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and
sent to do their offices, are obedient.
61 In like manner the lightning when it breaketh
forth is easy to be seen; and after the same man-
ner the wind bloweth in every country.
62 And when God commandeth the clouds to go
over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.
63 And the fire sent from above to consume hills
and woods doeth as it is commanded: but these
are like unto them neither in shew nor power.
64 Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor
said that they are gods, seeing, they are able nei-
ther to judge causes, nor to do good unto men.
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65 Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear

them not,
66 For they can neither curse nor bless kings:
67 Neither can they shew signs in the heavens
among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give
light as the moon.
68 The beasts are better than they: for they can
get under a cover and help themselves.
69 It is then by no means manifest unto us that
they are gods: therefore fear them not.
70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers
keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and
laid over with silver and gold.
71 And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over
with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an
orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a
dead body, that is cast into the dark.
72 And ye shall know them to be no gods by the
bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they
themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be
a reproach in the country.
73 Better therefore is the just man that hath none
idols: for he shall be far from reproach.
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