Letter of Jeremiah 10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ Sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it on themselves, ¹¹ or even give some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. They deck their gods^[a] out with garments like human beings—these gods of silver and gold and wood ¹² that cannot save themselves from rust and corrosion. When they have been dressed in purple robes,