Epistle of Jeremy 1_1:42 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴² And the women, with cords around them, sit along the passageways, burning bran for incense.

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Good News Translation (US Version)

⁴² But even when the people realize that their gods cannot help, they are stupid enough to go on worshiping them.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

⁴² Some Babylonian women wrap cords around their heads as a decoration, then they sit along the roads, burning incense and offering themselves as prostitutes.

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴² Yet they cannot perceive this themselves, and forsake them: for they have no understanding.

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