Letter of Jeremiah 6:12
King James VersionSource notes
“Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment.”
Context
9And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.
10Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves.
11Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, being gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood.
12Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment.
13They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them.
14And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.
15He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves.