Baruch 6
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1BEcause of the sinnes,that ye haue committed against God, ye shalbe led away captiues vnto Babylon,by Nabuchodonosor,King of the Babylonians. 2So when ye be come into Babylon,ye shal remaine there manie yeres,and a long season,euen seuen generacions, and after that wil I bring you away peaceably from thence. 3Now shal ye se in Babylon gods of siluer, and of golde, and of wood, borne vpon mens shulders, to cause the people to feare. 4Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like the strangers, nether be ye afraide of them,when ye se the multitude before them and behinde them worshipping them, 5But say ye in your hearts, O Lord,we must worshippe thee. 6For mine Angel shalbe with you, & shal care for your soules. 7As for their tongue, it is polished by the carpenter,and they them selues are gilted, and laied ouer with siluer: yet are they but lyes,and can not speake. 8And as they take golde for a maide that loueth to be dect, 9So make they crownes for the heads of their gods: some times also the Priests them selues conuey away the golde, and siluer from their gods,and bestowe it vpon them selues. 10Yea, they giue of the same vnto the harlots, that are in their houses: againe, they decke these gods of siluer, and gods of golde, and of wood with garments like men, 11Yet can not they be preserued from rust and wormes, 12Thogh they haue couered them with clothing of purple, and wipe their faces because of the dust of the Temple, whereof there is muche vpon them. 13One holdeth a scepter, as thogh he were a certeine iudge of the countrey:yet can he not slay suche as offende him. 14Another hathe a dagger or an axe in his right hand: yet is he not able to defende him self from battel, nor from theues: so then it is euident,that they be no gods. 15Therefore feare them not:for as a vessel that a man vseth, is nothing worthe when it is broken, 16Suche are their gods:when they be set vp in their temples, their eyes be ful of dust by reason of the fete of those that come in: 17And as the gates are shut in round about vpon him that hathe offended the King: or as one that shulde be led to be put to death,so the Priests kepe their temples with doores,and with lockes,& with barres,lest their gods shulde be spoyled by robbers. 18They light vp candels before them:yea, more then for them selues whereof they can not se one: for they are but as one of the postes of the temple. 19They confesse,that euen their hearts are gnawen vpon: but when the things, that crepe out of the earth, eat them and their clothes,they feele it not. 20Their faces are blacke thorow the smoke that is in the temple. 21The owles,swalowes and birdes flie vpon their bodies,and vpon their heads,yea, & the cattes also. 22By this ye may be sure,that they are not gods:therefore feare them not. 23Notwithstanding the golde,that is about them to make them beautiful,except one wipe of the rust,they can not shine:nether when they were molten,did they fele it. 24The things wherein is no breth, are boght for a moste high price. 25They are borne vpon mens shulders, because they haue no feete, whereby they declare vnto men, that they be nothing worthe:yea,& they that worship them, are ashamed. 26For if they fall to the grounde at anie time,they can not rise vp againe of them selues,nether if one set them vp right, can they moue of them selues,nether if they be bowed downe, can they make them selues streight:but they set giftes before them,as vnto dead men. 27As for the things that are offred vnto them, their Priests sell them, and abuse them:likewise also the women lay vp of the same: but vnto the poore and sicke they giue nothing. 28The menstruous women, and they that are in childebed, touche their sacrifices: by these things ye may knowe that they are no gods:feare them not. 29From whence cometh it then, that they are called gods? because the women bring giftes to the gods of siluer, and golde, and wood. 30And the Priests sit in their temples, hauing their clothes rent, whose heades and beardes are shauen,& being bare headed, 31Thei roare, & crye before their gods,as men do at the feast of one that is dead. 32The Priests also take away of their garments,and clothe their wiues and children. 33Whether it be euil that one doeth vnto them,or good,they are not able to recompense it: they can nether set vp a King nor put him downe. 34In like maner they can nether giue riches, nor money: thogh a man make a vowe vnto them and kepe it not, they wil no require it. 35They can saue no man from death,nether deliuer the weake from the mightie. 36They can not restore a blinde man to his sight,nor helpe anie man at his nede. 37They can shewe no mercie to the widdowe,nor do good to the fatherles. 38Their gods of wood, golde and siluer, are as stones, that be hewen out of the mountaine, and they that worship them, shalbe confounded. 39How shulde a man then thinke or say that they are gods? 40Moreouer the Chaldeans them selues dishonor them:for when thei se a domme man, that can not speake,thei present him to Bel, 41And desire that he wolde make him to speake,as thogh he had anie feling:yet thei that vnderstand these things, can not leaue them:for they also haue no sense. 42Furthermore the women, girded with coards,sit in the stretes, and burne strawe. 43And if one of them be drawen away,and lie with anie suche as come by, she casteth her neighbour in the teeth,because she was not so worthely reputed, nor her coard broken. 44Whatsoeuer is done among them, is lies: how may it then be thoght or said, that they are gods? 45Carpenters and goldesmithes make them, nether be they anie other thing, but euen what the workeman wil make them. 46Yea,they that make them, are of no long continuance: how shulde then the things that are made of them,be gods? 47Therefore they leaue lies, and shame for their posteritie. 48For when there cometh anie warre or plague vpon them, the Priests imagine with them selues, where they may hide them selues with them. 50For seing they be but of wood, and of siluer, and of golde, men shal knowe hereafter that they are but lies, and it shalbe manifest to all nacions & Kings, that they be no gods, but the workes of mens hands, and that there is no worke of God in them. 51Whereby it maye be knowen, that they are no gods. 52They can set vp no King in the land, nor giue raine vnto men. 53They can giue no sentence of a matter, nether preserue from iniurie: they haue no power, but are as crowes betwene the heauen and the earth. 54When there falleth a fyre vpon the house of those gods of wood, and of siluer, & of golde, the Priests wil escape & saue them selues, but thei burne as the balkes therein. 55Thei can not withstand anie King or enemies: how can it then be thoght or said that they be gods? 56Moreouer these gods of wood, of golde, and of siluer can nether defend them selues from theues nor robbers. 57For they that are strongest, take awaye their golde and siluer, and apparel, wherewith they be clothed: and when they haue it, they get them awaye: yet can they not helpe them selues. 58Therefore it is better to be a King, & so to shewe his power, or els a profitable vessel in an house, whereby he that oweth it, might haue profite, then suche false gods: or to be a dore in an house, to kepe suche things safe as be therein, then suche false gods: or a piller of wood in a palace, then suche false gods. 59For the sunne, and the moone, and the starres that shine, when thei are sent downe for necessarie vses, obey. 60Likewise also the lightning when it shineth, it is euident: and the winde bloweth in euerie countrey. 61And when God commandeth the cloudes to go about the whole worlde, they do as thei are bidden. 62When the fyre is sent downe from aboue to destroye hilles and woods, it doeth that which is commanded: but these are not like anie of these things, nether in forme, nor power. 63Wherefore men shulde not thinke, nor say that they be gods, seing thei can nether giue sentence in iudgement, nor do men good. 64For so muche now as ye are sure, that they be no gods, feare them not. 65For they can nether curse, nor blesse Kings: 66Nether can thei shewe signes in the heauen among the heathen, nether shine as the moone. 67The beastes are better then they: for thei can get them vnder a couert, and do them selues good. 68So ye may be certified that by no maner of meanes, they are gods: therefore feare them not. 69For as a skarcrowe in a garden of cucumbers kepeth nothing, so are their gods of wood, and of siluer, and of golde: 70And likewise their gods of wood, and golde and siluer are like to a white thorne in an orcharde, that euerie birde sitteth vpon, and as a dead bodie that is cast in the darke. 71By the purple also and brightnes, which fadeth vpon them, ye may vnderstand, that they be no gods: yea, they them selues shal be consumed at the last, and they shalbe a shame to the countrey. 72Better therefore is the iuste man, that hathe none idoles: for he shalbe farre from reprofe.