Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version they are like crows between heaven and earth. When fire breaks out in a temple of wooden gods overlaid with gold or silver, their priests will flee and escape, but the gods will be burned up like timbers. New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods? Baruch 6:53They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth. Baruch 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. 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, Baruch 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. Context Baruch 6…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? 56Neither 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,… Cross References 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 6:54 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. 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, Baruch 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. |
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