Letter of Jeremiah 6:47
King James VersionSource notes
“For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.”
Context
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?
50For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false: