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One holds a sceptre like the governor of a province, yet is powerless to put to death anyone who offends him; (Baruch 6, 12)
another holds sword and mace in his right hand, yet is powerless to defend himself against war or thieves. (Baruch 6, 13)
Their eyes are full of dust raised by the feet of those who enter. (Baruch 6, 16)
Just as the doors are locked on all sides on someone who has offended a king and is under sentence of death, so the priests secure the temples of these gods with gates and bolts and bars for fear of burglary. (Baruch 6, 17)
They are like one of the temple beams, which are said to be gnawed away from within; the termites creep out of the ground and eat them and their clothes too, and they feel nothing. (Baruch 6, 19)
'The gold with which they are parading their futility before the world is supposed to make them look beautiful, but if someone does not rub off the tarnish, these gods will not be shining much on their own, and even while they were being cast, they felt nothing. (Baruch 6, 23)
However much was paid for them, there is still no breath of life in them. (Baruch 6, 24)
Once they have been stood up, they cannot move on their own; if they tilt askew, they cannot right themselves; offerings made to them might as well be made to the dead. (Baruch 6, 26)
'Indeed, how can they even be called gods, when women do the offering to these gods of silver, gold and wood? (Baruch 6, 29)
they roar and shriek before their gods as people do at funeral feasts. (Baruch 6, 31)
nor regulate their own affairs, nor rescue anyone who suffers a wrong; they are as helpless as crows between sky and ground. (Baruch 6, 53)
If fire falls on the temple of these wooden gods overlaid with gold or silver, their priests fly to safety while they for their part stay there like beams, to be burnt. (Baruch 6, 54)
