Letter of Jeremiah 1:44 Context

⁴¹Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge. ⁴²The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any 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. ⁴³Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods? ⁴⁴They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be. ⁴⁵And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods? ⁴⁶For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after. ⁴⁷For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

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