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cloak of divine protection✻ thrown about thee, thy temples bearing a diadem of renown. (Baruch 5, 2)
And you must know that you will see, in that country, gods of gold and silver, gods of stone and wood, that are carried about on men’s shoulders; to the heathen, things of great dread. (Baruch 6, 3)
Ay, gold must go to their fashioning, never was maid so bravely tricked out; (Baruch 6, 8)
Yet men will have it that serpents creep out of the earth and drink in the secrets of their hearts! Worms, more like, that eat the idol up, clothes and all, and it none the wiser.✻ (Baruch 6, 19)
about their bodies and heads fly owl and swallow; birds hover and cats prowl. (Baruch 6, 21)
Fair, golden faces! Yet will they not shine on the worshipper, till he rub off the stains on them; cast once for all in a mould, without feeling.✻ (Baruch 6, 23)
never a pace they walk, but must still be carried on men’s shoulders, putting their own worshippers to shame by the betrayal of their impotence. (Baruch 6, 25)
the victim thou offerest yonder priest will sell, or put to his own use, nor ever a slice his wife cuts shall find its way to the sick and the needy. (Baruch 6, 27)
And indeed the Chaldaeans themselves have but scant reverence for these idols of theirs; hear they of a dumb child that can utter no word, Bel’s image must be brought to it and petitioned for the gift of speech; (Baruch 6, 40)
See where their women sit in the streets, with ropes about them, each before a fire of olive-stones,✻ (Baruch 6, 42)
each waiting till some passer-by drags her away and beds her, then taunting her less coveted neighbours, that have ropes about them still! (Baruch 6, 43)
an appointed task, too, has the heaven-lit fire that burns mountain-side and forest. What beauty have the idols, or what power, that they should be compared with any of these? (Baruch 6, 62)
