Letter of Jeremiah 6:70
King James VersionSource notes
“For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.”
Context
67Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.
68The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a cover and help themselves.
69It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.
70For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.
71And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is east into the dark.
72And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.
73Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.