Letter of Jeremiah 9-11

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⁹ Sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it on themselves ¹⁰ or even give some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. They deck their gods^[a] out with garments like humans—these gods of silver and gold and wood^{(A) 11} that cannot save themselves from rust and decay.^[b] When they have been dressed in purple robes,^(B)