Letter of Jeremiah 41-43

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴¹ Yet they themselves cannot perceive this and abandon them, for they have no sense. ⁴² And the women, with cords around them, sit along the passageways, burning bran for incense. ⁴³ When one of them is led off by one of the passers-by and is taken to bed by him, she derides the woman next to her, because she was not as attractive as herself and her cord was not broken.