Letter of Jeremiah 6:27
King James VersionSource notes
“They 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.”
Context
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.
28As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it.
29Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.
30For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.