Epistle of Jeremy 1_1:71 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷¹ In the same way, their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver, and like a thorn bush in a garden, on which every bird sits; or like a dead body cast out in the darkness.

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Good News Translation (US Version)

⁷¹ They do as much good as a thorn bush in a garden; instead of keeping birds away, they provide a perch for them. These gods are like a dead body thrown out into the darkness.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

⁷¹ They are like a thornbush that birds use as a place to perch or like a dead body thrown out into the darkness.

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Epistle of Jeremy 1_1:71 Tagairtí Cros