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The Idols of Babylon and the One True God

46 (A)Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
    as burdens on weary beasts.

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(A)They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
    they set it in its place, and it stands there;
    (B)it cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
    or save him from his trouble.

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Their idols[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
    and (A)they cannot speak;
(B)they have to be carried,
    for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
    (C)for they cannot do evil,
    neither is it in them to do good.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:5 Hebrew They