, 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.

EpJer 6:21
Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of
the temple.

EpJer 6:22
Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds,
and the cats also.

EpJer 6:23
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear
them not.

EpJer 6:24
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.

EpJer 6:25
The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most
high price.

EpJer 6:26
They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they
declare unto men that they be nothing worth.

EpJer 6:27
They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to
the ground at any time, they cannot 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.

EpJer 6:28
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.

EpJer 6:29
Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices:
by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them
not.

EpJer 6:30
For how can they be called gods? because women set meat
before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

EpJer 6:31
And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes
rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their
heads.

EpJer 6:32
They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast
when one is dead.

EpJer 6:33
The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their
wives and children.

EpJer 6:34
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.

EpJer 6:35
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.

EpJer 6:36
They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak
from the mighty.

EpJer 6:37
They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any
man in his distress.

EpJer 6:38
They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the