Letter of Jeremiah 17-19

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁷ For as a broken vessel of a man is made unprofitable, such also be the gods of them. When they be set (up) in the house (or in the temple), the eyes of them be full of dust, of (or from) the feet of men entering [in].

¹⁸ And as [the] gates be set about a man, that offended the king, either as when a dead man is brought to the sepulchre, so priests keep securely the doors with closings, and locks, lest they be robbed of (or by) thieves.

¹⁹ They tend lanterns to (or for) them, and soothly many lanterns, of which they may (or be able to) see none;