Letter of Jeremiah 6:46
King James VersionSource notes
“And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?”
Context
43The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
44Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?
45They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.
46And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?
47For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.
48For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.
49How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?