Letter of Jeremiah 18-20

Revised Standard Version

¹⁸ And just as the gates are shut on every side upon a man who has offended a king, as though he were sentenced to death, so the priests make their temples secure with doors and locks and bars, in order that they may not be plundered by robbers. ¹⁹ They light lamps, even more than they light for themselves, though their gods^[a] can see none of them. ²⁰ They are^[b] just like a beam of the temple, but men say their hearts have melted, when worms from the earth devour them and their robes. They do not notice