Letter of Jeremiah 18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The priests light more lamps for the idols than for themselves, but their gods can’t see them. ¹⁹ The idols are just like the beams that support a house, but people say that their hearts melt before them.^[a] They don’t notice when vermin from the earth have eaten them and their clothing. ²⁰ Their faces have been darkened by the smoke that is in the temple.