Epistle of Jeremiah 1:70 (Septuagint)

⁶⁸The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a covert, and help themselves.

⁶⁹It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

— Epistle of Jeremiah 1:70 —

⁷¹And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast into the dark.

⁷²And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.