Letter of Jeremiah 6:24
King James VersionSource notes
“Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.”
Context
21Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple.
22Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also.
23By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
24Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.
25The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price.
26They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth.
27They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.