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'Overlaid with gold and silver, their tongues polished smooth by a craftsman, they are counterfeit and have no power to speak. (Baruch 6, 7)
As though for a girl fond of finery, these people take gold and make crowns for the heads of their gods. (Baruch 6, 8)
And sometimes, the priests filch gold and silver from their gods to spend on themselves, even giving some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. (Baruch 6, 9)
They dress up these gods of silver, gold and wood, in clothes, like human beings; on their own they cannot protect themselves from either tarnish or woodworm; (Baruch 6, 10)
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)
'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)
'Indeed, how can they even be called gods, when women do the offering to these gods of silver, gold and wood? (Baruch 6, 29)
These wooden gods overlaid with gold and silver are about as much use as rocks cut out of the mountain side. Their worshippers will be confounded! (Baruch 6, 38)
'Made by woodworkers and goldsmiths, they are only what those workmen decide to make them. (Baruch 6, 45)
And since they are only made of wood overlaid with gold or silver, it will later become apparent that they are spurious; it will be obvious to everyone, to nations as to kings, that they are not gods but the work of human hands, and that there is no divine activity in them. (Baruch 6, 50)
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)
