Catholic Public Domain Version
"How can man make gods for himself, though these are not gods?” "
— Jeremiah 16:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?”
“Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods? ”
“Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?”
“Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.””
“Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods?”
“Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?”
“Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?”
For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed from my eyes.
But first, I will repay their double iniquities and their sins. For they have defiled my land with the dead bodies of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
“O Lord, my strength, and my health, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: the Gentiles will approach you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: ‘Truly, our fathers possessed a lie, an emptiness that has not benefited them.’
How can man make gods for himself, though these are not gods?”
“Concerning this, behold: I will make it clear to them, in this turn. I will reveal to them my hand and my virtue. And they will know that the Lord is my name.”