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For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.
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And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.
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They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.
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The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children.
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Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.
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In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.
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They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.
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They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress.
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They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.
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Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded.
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How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?