Letter of Jeremiah 41-43

Revised Standard Version

⁴¹ for when they see a dumb man, who cannot speak, they bring him and pray Bel^[a] that the man may speak, as though Bel^[b] were able to understand. ⁴² Yet they themselves cannot perceive this and abandon them, for they have no sense. ⁴³ And the women, with cords about them, sit along the passageways, burning bran for incense; and when one of them is led off by one of the passers-by and is lain with, she derides the woman next to her, because she was not as attractive as herself and her cord was not broken.