Letter of Jeremiah 42-44

Revised Standard Version

⁴² Yet they themselves cannot perceive this and abandon them, for they have no sense. ⁴³ And the women, with cords about them, sit along the passageways, burning bran for incense; and when one of them is led off by one of the passers-by and is lain with, she derides the woman next to her, because she was not as attractive as herself and her cord was not broken. ⁴⁴ Whatever is done for them is false. Why then must any one think that they are gods, or call them gods?