Letter of Jeremiah 6:48
King James VersionSource notes
“For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.”
Context
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:
51And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.