Letter of Jeremiah 69-71

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⁶⁹ Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed that guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver.^{(A) 70} In the same way, their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver, are like a thornbush in a garden on which every bird perches or like a corpse thrown out in the darkness.^{(B) 71} From the purple and linen^[a] that rot upon them you will know that they are not gods, and they will finally be consumed themselves and be a reproach in the land.^(C)