New American Bible, Revised Edition

Baruch 6:26-32 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

26. because, if they fall to the ground, the worshipers must pick them up. They neither move of themselves if one sets them upright, nor come upright if they are tipped over; offerings are set out for them as for the dead.

27. Their priests sell their sacrifices for their own advantage. Likewise their wives cure some of the meat, but they do not share it with the poor and the weak;

28. women ritually unclean or at childbirth handle their sacrifices. From such things, know that they are not gods; do not fear them.

29. How can they be called gods? Women set out the offerings for these gods of silver and gold and wood,

30. and in their temples the priests squat with torn tunic and with shaven hair and beard, and with their heads uncovered.

31. They shout and wail before their gods as others do at a funeral banquet.

32. The priests take some of the clothing from their gods and put it on their wives and children.