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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. 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