Baruch 6:70-73

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷⁰ Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed, which guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver. ⁷¹ In the same way, their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver, are like a thornbush in a garden on which every bird perches; or like a corpse thrown out in the darkness. ⁷² From the purple and linen^[a] that rot upon them you will know that they are not gods; and they will finally be consumed themselves, and be a reproach in the land. ⁷³ Better, therefore, is someone upright who has no idols; such a person will be far above reproach.