Letter of Jeremiah 18-20

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁸ And as [the] gates be set about a man, that offended the king, either as when a dead man is brought to the sepulchre, so priests keep securely the doors with closings, and locks, lest they be robbed of (or by) thieves.

¹⁹ They tend lanterns to (or for) them, and soothly many lanterns, of which they may (or be able to) see none;

²⁰ forsooth they be as (the) beams in an house (or in the temple). Soothly men say that (the) serpents, that be of (the) earth, lick out the hearts of them; (yet) while the serpents eat them, and their cloth(es), and they feel it not. [forsooth they be as beams in the house. Soothly serpents that be of the earth, be said to lick out the hearts of them; (yet) the while they eat them, and (the) clothing of them, and they feel (it) not.]