Baruch 6:54
New Revised Standard Version
They cannot judge their own cause or deliver one who is wronged, for they have no power;

New American Bible
They are like crows in midair. For when fire breaks out in the temple of these wooden or gilded or silvered gods, though the priests flee and are safe, they themselves are burned up in the fire like timbers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Baruch 6:52
They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men.

Baruch 6:53
They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth.

Baruch 6:55
And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods?

Baruch 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,

Context
Baruch 6
53They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth. 54For 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. 55And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods?…
Cross References
Baruch 6:52
They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men.

Baruch 6:53
They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth.

Baruch 6:55
And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods?

Baruch 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,



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Baruch 6:53
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