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+Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 30: Baruch
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 30***
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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE PROPHECY OF BARUCH
+
+BARUCH was a man of noble extraction, and learned in the law, secretary
+and disciple to the prophet JEREMIAS, and a sharer in his labours and
+persecutions: which is the reason why the ancient fathers have
+considered this book as a part of the prophecy of JEREMIAS, and have
+usually quoted it under his name.
+
+
+Baruch Chapter 1
+
+The Jews of Babylon send the book of Baruch with money to Jerusalem,
+requesting their brethren there to offer sacrifice, and to pray for the
+king and for them, acknowledging their manifold sins.
+
+1:1. And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of
+Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Sedei, the
+son Helcias, wrote in Babylonia.
+
+1:2. In the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time
+that the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
+
+1:3. And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias
+the son of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hearing of all the people
+that came to hear the book.
+
+1:4. And in the hearing of the nobles, the sons of the kings, and in the
+hearing of the ancients, and in the hearing of the people, from the
+least even to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by the river
+Sedi.
+
+1:5. And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the
+Lord.
+
+1:6. And they made a collection of money according to every man's power.
+
+1:7. And they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the priest, the son of
+Helcias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people,
+that were found with him in Jerusalem:
+
+1:8. At the time when he received the vessels of the temple of the Lord,
+which had been taken away out of the temple, to return them into the
+land of Juda the tenth day of the month Sivan, the silver vessels, which
+Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,
+
+1:9. After that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away
+Jechonias, and the princes, and all the powerful men, and the people of
+the land from Jerusalem, and brought them bound to Babylon.
+
+1:10. And they said: Behold we have sent you money, buy with it
+holocausts, and frankincense, and make meat offerings, and offerings for
+sin at the altar of the Lord our God:
+
+1:11. And pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon,
+and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth
+as the days of heaven:
+
+1:12. And that the Lord may give us strength, and enlighten our eyes,
+that we may live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon,
+and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and may serve them many days,
+and may find favour in their sight.
+
+1:13. And pray ye for us to the Lord our God: for we have sinned against
+the Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned away from us even to this
+day.
+
+1:14. And read ye this book, which we have sent to you to be read in the
+temple of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days.
+
+1:15. And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth justice, but to
+us confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to all Juda,
+and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
+
+1:16. To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our
+prophets, and to our fathers.
+
+1:17. We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not believed him,
+nor put our trust in him:
+
+1:18. And we were not obedient to him, and we have not hearkened to the
+voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments which he hath
+given us.
+
+1:19. From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt,
+even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going
+astray we turned away from hearing his voice.
+
+1:20. And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord
+foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land
+of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.
+
+1:21. And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God
+according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us:
+
+1:22. And we have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own
+wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the
+Lord our God.
+
+Baruch Chapter 2
+
+A further confession of the sins of the people, and of the justice of
+God.
+
+2:1. Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke
+to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and
+to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda:
+
+2:2. That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never
+happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according
+to the things that are written in the law of Moses:
+
+2:3. That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of
+his own daughter.
+
+2:4. And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings
+that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the
+people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.
+
+2:5. And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have
+sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.
+
+2:6. To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our
+fathers confusion of face, as at this day.
+
+2:7. For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are
+come upon us:
+
+2:8. And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we
+might return every one of us from our most wicked ways.
+
+2:9. And the Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath brought it
+upon us: for the Lord is just in all his works which he hath commanded
+us:
+
+2:10. And we have not hearkened to his voice to walk in the commandments
+of the Lord which he hath set before us.
+
+2:11. And now, O Lord God of Israel, who hast brought thy people out of
+the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders,
+and with thy great power, and with a mighty arm, and hast made thee a
+name as at this day,
+
+2:12. We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have acted unjustly, O
+Lord our God, against all thy justices.
+
+2:13. Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are left a few among
+the nations where thou hast scattered us.
+
+2:14. Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our petitions, and deliver us for
+thy own sake: and grant that we may find favour in the sight of them
+that have led us away:
+
+2:15. That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, and
+that thy name is called upon Israel, and upon his posterity.
+
+2:16. Look down upon us, O Lord, from thy holy house, and incline thy
+ear, and hear us.
+
+2:17. Open thy eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in hell, whose
+spirit is taken away from their bowels, shall not give glory and justice
+to the Lord:
+
+Justice, etc... They that are in hell shall not give justice to God;
+that is, they shall not acknowledge and glorify his justice as penitent
+sinners do upon earth.
+
+2:18. But the soul that is sorrowful for the greatness of evil she hath
+done, and goeth bowed down, and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the
+hungry soul giveth glory and justice to thee the Lord.
+
+2:19. For it is not for the justices of our fathers that we pour out our
+prayers, and beg mercy in thy sight, O Lord our God:
+
+2:20. But because thou hast sent out thy wrath, and thy indignation upon
+us, as thou hast spoken by the hand of thy servants the prophets,
+saying:
+
+2:21. Thus saith the Lord: Bow down your shoulder, and your neck, and
+serve the king of Babylon: and you shall remain in the land which I have
+given to your fathers.
+
+2:22. But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to
+serve the king of Babylon: I will cause you to depart out of the cities
+of Juda, and from without Jerusalem.
+
+2:23. And I will take away from you the voice of mirth, and the voice of
+joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, and
+all the land shall be without any footstep of inhabitants.
+
+2:24. And they hearkened not to thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon:
+and thou hast made good thy words, which thou spokest by the hands of
+thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of
+our fathers should be removed out of their place:
+
+2:25. And behold they are cast out to the heat of the sun, and to the
+frost of the night: and they have died in grievous pains, by famine, and
+by the sword, and in banishment.
+
+2:26. And thou hast made the temple, in which thy name was called upon,
+as it is at this day, for the iniquity of the house of Israel, and the
+house of Juda.
+
+2:27. And thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our God, according to all thy
+goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine:
+
+2:28. As thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, in the day when
+thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel,
+
+2:29. Saying: If you will not hear my voice, this great multitude shall
+be turned into a very small number among the nations, where I will
+scatter them:
+
+2:30. For I know that the people will not hear me, for they are a people
+of a stiff neck: but they shall turn to their heart in the land of their
+captivity:
+
+2:31. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give
+them a heart, and they shall understand: and ears, and they shall hear.
+
+2:32. And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and shall
+be mindful of my name.
+
+2:33. And they shall turn away themselves from their stiff neck, and
+from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their
+fathers, that sinned against me.
+
+2:34. And I will bring them back again into the land which I promised
+with an oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall
+be masters thereof: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be
+diminished.
+
+2:35. And I will make with them another covenant that shall be
+everlasting, to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no
+more remove my people, the children of Israel, out of the land that I
+have given them.
+
+Baruch Chapter 3
+
+They pray for mercy, acknowledging that they are justly punished for
+forsaking true wisdom. A prophecy of Christ.
+
+3:1. And now, O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, the soul in anguish,
+and the troubled spirit crieth to thee:
+
+3:2. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for thou art a merciful God, and have
+pity on us: for we have sinned before thee.
+
+3:3. For thou remainest for ever, and shall we perish everlastingly?
+
+3:4. O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead
+of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before thee, and have
+not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, wherefore evils have
+cleaved fast to us.
+
+3:5. Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but think upon thy
+hand, and upon thy name at this time:
+
+3:6. For thou art the Lord our God, and we will praise thee, O Lord:
+
+3:7. Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the
+intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our
+captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who
+sinned before thee.
+
+3:8. And behold we are at this day in our captivity, whereby thou hast
+scattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence, according to
+all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord our
+God.
+
+3:9. Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear, that thou mayst
+learn wisdom.
+
+3:10. How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thy enemies' land?
+
+3:11. Thou art grown old in a strange country, thou art defiled with the
+dead: thou art counted with them that go down into hell.
+
+3:12. Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom:
+
+3:13. For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou hadst surely
+dwelt in peace for ever.
+
+3:14. Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding:
+that thou mayst know also where is length of days and life, where is the
+light of the eyes, and peace.
+
+3:15. Who hath found out her place? and who hath gone in to her
+treasures?
+
+3:16. Where are the princes of the nations, and they that rule over the
+beasts that are upon the earth?
+
+3:17. That take their diversion with the birds of the air.
+
+3:18. That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no
+end of their getting? who work in silver and are solicitous, and their
+works are unsearchable.
+
+3:19. They are cut off, and are gone down to hell, and others are risen
+up in their place.
+
+3:20. Young men have seen the light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the
+way of knowledge they have not known,
+
+3:21. Nor have they understood the paths thereof, neither have their
+children received it, it is far from their face.
+
+3:22. It hath not been heard of in the land of Chanaan, neither hath it
+been seen in Theman.
+
+Theman... The capital city of Edom.
+
+3:23. The children of Agar also, that search after the wisdom that is of
+the earth, the merchants of Merrha, and of Theman, and the tellers of
+fables, and searchers of prudence and understanding: but the way of
+wisdom they have not known, neither have they remembered her paths.
+
+Agar... The mother of the Ismaelites.
+
+3:24. O Israel, how great is the house of God, and how vast is the place
+of his possession!
+
+3:25. It is great, and hath no end: it is high and immense.
+
+3:26. There were the giants, those renowned men that were from the
+beginning, of great stature, expert in war.
+
+3:27. The Lord chose not them, neither did they find the way of
+knowledge: therefore did they perish.
+
+3:28. And because they had not wisdom, they perished through their
+folly.
+
+3:29. Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down
+from the clouds?
+
+3:30. Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and brought her
+preferably to chosen gold?
+
+3:31. There is none that is able to know her ways, nor that can search
+out her paths:
+
+3:32. But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and hath found her
+out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore, and
+filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts:
+
+3:33. He that sendeth forth the light, and it goeth: and hath called it,
+and it obeyeth him with trembling.
+
+3:34. And the stars have given light in their watches, and rejoiced:
+
+3:35. They were called, and they said: Here we are: and with
+cheerfulness they have shined forth to him that made them.
+
+3:36. This is our God, and there shall no other be accounted of in
+comparison of him.
+
+3:37. He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his
+servant, and to Israel his beloved.
+
+3:38. Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men.
+
+Was seen upon earth, etc... viz., by the mystery of the incarnation, by
+means of which the son of God came visibly amongst us, and conversed
+with men. The prophets often speak of things to come as if they were
+past, to express the certainty of the event of the things foretold.
+
+Baruch Chapter 4
+
+The prophet exhorts to the keeping of the law of wisdom, and encourages
+the people to be patient, and to hope for their deliverance.
+
+4:1. This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is
+for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have
+forsaken it, to death.
+
+4:2. Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its
+brightness, in the presence of the light thereof.
+
+4:3. Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange
+nation.
+
+4:4. We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to
+God, are made known to us.
+
+4:5. Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
+
+4:6. You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but
+because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your
+adversaries.
+
+4:7. For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering
+sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
+
+4:8. For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have
+grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
+
+4:9. For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give
+ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great
+mourning:
+
+4:10. For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my
+daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
+
+4:11. For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping
+and mourning.
+
+4:12. Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken
+of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law
+of God.
+
+4:13. And they have not known his justices, nor walked by the ways of
+God's commandments, neither have they entered by the paths of his truth
+and justice.
+
+4:14. Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember the captivity of
+my sons and daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
+
+4:15. For he hath brought a nation upon them from afar, a wicked nation,
+and of a strange tongue:
+
+4:16. Who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children, and
+have carried away the beloved of the widow, and have left me all alone
+without children.
+
+4:17. But as for me, what help can I give you?
+
+4:18. But he that hath brought the evils upon you, he will deliver you
+out of the hands of your enemies.
+
+4:19. Go your way, my children, go your way: for I am left alone.
+
+4:20. I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the
+sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days.
+
+4:21. Be of good comfort, my children, cry to the Lord, and he will
+deliver you out of the hand of the princes your enemies.
+
+4:22. For my hope is in the Eternal that he will save you: and joy is
+come upon me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall come to
+you from our everlasting Saviour.
+
+4:23. For I sent you forth with mourning and weeping: but the Lord will
+bring you back to me with joy and gladness for ever.
+
+4:24. For as the neighbours of Sion have now seen your captivity from
+God: so shall they also shortly see your salvation from God, which shall
+come upon you with great honour, and everlasting glory.
+
+4:25. My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you: for
+thy enemy hath persecuted thee, but thou shalt quickly see his
+destruction: and thou shalt get up upon his neck.
+
+4:26. My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were taken away
+as a flock made a prey by the enemies.
+
+4:27. Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you
+shall be remembered by him that hath led you away.
+
+4:28. For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return
+again you shall seek him ten times as much.
+
+4:29. For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you
+everlasting joy again with your salvation.
+
+4:30. Be of good heart, O Jerusalem: for he exhorteth thee, that named
+thee.
+
+4:31. The wicked that have afflicted thee, shall perish: and they that
+have rejoiced at thy ruin, shall be punished.
+
+4:32. The cities which thy children have served, shall be punished: and
+she that received thy sons.
+
+She that received, etc... viz., Babylon.
+
+4:33. For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so
+shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
+
+4:34. And the joy of her multitude shall be cut off: and her gladness
+shall be turned to mourning.
+
+4:35. For fire shall come upon her from the Eternal, long to endure, and
+she shall be inhabited by devils for a great time.
+
+4:36. Look about thee, O Jerusalem, towards the east, and behold the joy
+that cometh to thee from God.
+
+4:37. For behold thy children come, whom thou sentest away scattered,
+they come gathered together from the east even to the west, at the word
+of the Holy One rejoicing for the honour of God.
+
+Baruch Chapter 5
+
+Jerusalem is invited to rejoice and behold the return of her children
+out of their captivity.
+
+5:1. Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of thy mourning, and affliction:
+and put on the beauty, and honour of that everlasting glory which thou
+hast from God.
+
+5:2. God will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will
+set a crown on thy head of everlasting honour.
+
+5:3. For God will shew his brightness in thee, to every one under
+heaven.
+
+5:4. For thy name shall be named to thee by God for ever: the peace of
+justice, and honour of piety.
+
+5:5. Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high: and look about towards the
+east, and behold thy children gathered together from the rising to the
+setting sun, by the word of the Holy One rejoicing in the remembrance of
+God.
+
+5:6. For they went out from thee on foot, led by the enemies: but the
+Lord will bring them to thee exalted with honour as children of the
+kingdom.
+
+5:7. For God hath appointed to bring down every high mountain, and the
+everlasting rocks, and to fill up the valleys to make them even with the
+ground: that Israel may walk diligently to the honour of God.
+
+5:8. Moreover the woods, and every sweetsmelling tree have overshadowed
+Israel by the commandment of God.
+
+5:9. For God will bring Israel with joy in the light of his majesty,
+with mercy, and justice, that cometh from him.
+
+Baruch Chapter 6
+
+The epistle of Jeremias to the captives, as a preservative against
+idolatry.
+
+A copy of the epistle that Jeremias sent to them that were to be led
+away captives into Babylon, by the king of Babylon, to declare to them
+according to what was commanded him by God.
+
+6:1. For the sins that you have committed before God, you shall be
+carried away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor the king of
+Babylon.
+
+6:2. And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years,
+and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will
+bring you away from thence with peace.
+
+Seven generations... That is, seventy years.
+
+6:3. But now, you shall see in Babylon gods of gold, and of silver, and
+of stone, and of wood borne upon shoulders, causing fear to the
+Gentiles.
+
+6:4. Beware therefore that you imitate not the doings of others, and be
+afraid, and the fear of them should seize upon you.
+
+6:5. But when you see the multitude behind, and before, adoring them,
+say you in your hearts: Thou oughtest to be adored, O Lord.
+
+6:6. For my angel is with you: And I myself will demand an account of
+your souls.
+
+6:7. For their tongue that is polished by the craftsman, and themselves
+laid over with gold and silver, are false things, and they cannot speak.
+
+6:8. And as if it were for a maiden that loveth to go gay: so do they
+take gold and make them up.
+
+6:9. Their gods have golden crowns upon their heads: whereof the priests
+secretly convey away from them gold, and silver, and bestow it on
+themselves.
+
+6:10. Yea and they give thereof to prostitutes, and they dress out
+harlots: and again when they receive it of the harlots, they adorn their
+gods.
+
+6:11. And these gods cannot defend themselves from the rust, and the
+moth.
+
+6:12. But when they have covered them with a purple garment, they wipe
+their face because of the dust of the house, which is very much among
+them.
+
+6:13. This holdeth a sceptre as a man, as a judge of the country, but
+cannot put to death one that offendeth him.
+
+6:14. And this hath in his hand a sword, or an axe, but cannot save
+himself from war, or from robbers, whereby be it known to you, that they
+are not gods.
+
+6:15. Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel that a man uses when it
+is broken becometh useless, even so are their gods:
+
+6:16. When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by
+the feet of them that go in.
+
+6:17. And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath
+offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the
+priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by
+thieves.
+
+6:18. They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they
+cannot see one: but they are like beams in the house.
+
+6:19. And they say that the creeping things which are of the earth, gnaw
+their hearts, while they eat them and their garments, and they feel it
+not.
+
+6:20. Their faces are black with the smoke that is made in the house.
+
+6:21. Owls, and swallows, and other birds fly upon their bodies, and
+upon their heads, and cats in like manner.
+
+6:22. Whereby you may know that they are no gods. Therefore fear them
+not.
+
+6:23. The gold also which they have, is for shew, but except a man wipe
+off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten,
+did they feel it.
+
+6:24. Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them.
+
+6:25. And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders,
+declaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that worship
+them.
+
+6:26. Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of
+themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by
+themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead.
+
+6:27. The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and
+abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give
+nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor.
+
+6:28. The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices:
+knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them
+not.
+
+6:29. For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings
+before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood:
+
+6:30. And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and
+their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.
+
+6:31. And they roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast
+when one is dead.
+
+6:32. The priests take away their garments, and clothe their wives and
+their children.
+
+6:33. And whether it be evil that one doth unto them, or good, they are
+not able to recompense it: neither can they set up a king, nor put him
+down:
+
+6:34. In like manner they can neither give riches, nor requite evil. If
+a man make a vow to them, and perform it not: they cannot require it.
+
+6:35. They cannot deliver a man from death, nor save the weak from the
+mighty.
+
+6:36. They cannot restore the blind man to his sight: nor deliver a man
+from distress.
+
+6:37. They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.
+
+6:38. Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are
+like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that
+worship them shall be confounded.
+
+6:39. How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods?
+
+6:40. Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they here of
+one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him,
+that he may speak.
+
+6:41. As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves:
+and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods
+themselves have no sense.
+
+6:42. The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning
+olive-stones.
+
+6:43. And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with
+him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as
+herself, nor her cord broken.
+
+6:44. But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then
+to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods?
+
+6:45. And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be
+nothing else but what the priests will have them to be.
+
+6:46. For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long
+continuance. Can those things then that are made by them, be gods?
+
+6:47. But they have left false things and reproach to them that come
+after.
+
+6:48. For when war cometh upon them, or evils: the priests consult with
+themselves, where they may hide themselves with them.
+
+6:49. How then can they be thought to be gods, that can neither deliver
+themselves from war, nor save themselves from evils?
+
+6:50. For seeing they are but of wood, and laid over with gold, and with
+silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false things, by all
+nations, and kings: and it shall be manifest that they are no gods, but
+the work of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
+
+6:51. Whence, therefore, is it known that they are not gods, but the
+work of men's hands, and no work of God is in them?
+
+6:52. They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men.
+
+6:53. They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression:
+because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth.
+
+6:54. For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood, and
+of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be
+saved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams.
+
+6:55. And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be
+supposed, or admitted, that they are gods?
+
+6:56. Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with
+gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or
+robbers: they that are stronger than them,
+
+They that are stronger than them... That is, robbers and thieves are
+stronger than these idols, being things without life or motion.
+
+6:57. Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment
+wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they
+help themselves.
+
+6:58. Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or
+else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will
+be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are
+therein, than such false gods.
+
+6:59. The sun, and the moon, and the stars being bright, and sent forth
+for profitable uses, are obedient.
+
+6:60. In like manner the lightning, when it breaketh forth, is easy to
+be seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.
+
+6:61. And the clouds, when God commandeth them to go over the whole
+world, do that which is commanded them.
+
+6:62. The fire also being sent from above to consume mountains, and
+woods, doth as it is commanded. But these neither in shew, nor in power,
+are alike to any one of them.
+
+6:63. Wherefore it is neither to be thought, nor to be said, that they
+are gods: since they are neither able to judge causes, nor to do any
+good to men.
+
+6:64. Knowing, therefore, that they are not gods, fear them not.
+
+6:65. For neither can they curse kings, nor bless them.
+
+6:66. Neither do they shew signs in the heaven to the nations, nor shine
+as the sun, nor give light as the moon.
+
+6:67. Beasts are better than they, which can fly under a covert, and
+help themselves.
+
+6:68. Therefore there is no manner of appearance that they are gods: so
+fear them not.
+
+6:69. For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so
+are their gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over with gold.
+
+6:70. They are no better than a white thorn in a garden, upon which
+every bird sitteth. In like manner also their gods of wood, and laid
+over with gold, and with silver, are like to a dead body cast forth in
+the dark.
+
+6:71. By the purple also and the scarlet which are motheaten upon them,
+you shall know that they are not gods. And they themselves at last are
+consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country.
+
+6:72. Better, therefore, is the just man that hath no idols: for he
+shall be far from reproach.
+
+
+
+
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