Letter of Jeremiah 10-12

Revised Standard Version

¹⁰ and sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it upon themselves, ¹¹ and even give some of it to the harlots in the brothel. They deck their gods^[a] out with garments like men—these gods of silver and gold and wood, ¹² which cannot save themselves from rust and corrosion. When they have been dressed in purple robes,