What does Baruch Chapter 6 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Baruch 6 presents a copy of Jeremias's letter to those destined for Babylon because of sins. Many years and seven generations precede promised peaceful return; the edition separately explains seventy years. Shoulder-borne idols of gold, silver, stone and wood must not be feared or imitated. Inward worship is directed to the Lord, with his angel's presence and his account of their souls. Polished tongues cannot speak; ornaments like a maiden's adorn gods while priests steal metals for themselves and prostitutes. Rust, moth, dust and smoke attack them. Sceptre, sword and axe do not enable judgment, death or rescue. Bars and locks guard powerless figures; candles, creeping things, owls, swallows, birds and cats expose their helplessness. Bought at a price yet without breath or feet, they cannot raise themselves when fallen.

Priests sell sacrifices and their wives share them, without giving to sick or poor. Childbearing and menstruous women touch sacrifices, and women offer to idols. Priests with rent garments, shaved heads and bare heads cry like at a dead person's feast, then clothe wives and children from the idols' garments. Idols cannot repay good or evil, establish or remove kings, provide riches, enforce vows, rescue from death or weakness, give sight or relieve widows and orphans. Chaldeans bring the speechless to Bel without his response. Women sit by the ways with cords, burn olive stones and, after a passerby lies with one, she reproaches a neighbor whose cord remains unbroken. Mortal craftsmen make what priests name gods. During war priests consult where to hide them, without the letter supplying their chosen hiding plans.

The figures cannot rain, judge countries, escape fire, defend against strong robbers or perform God's works. Priests flee burning temples and leave them as beams. Useful royal power, vessels and secure doors surpass them. Sun, moon, stars, lightning, winds, commanded clouds and fire consuming mountains and woods contrast with their impotence. A cucumber-field scarecrow, bird-bearing whitethorn and dead body in darkness complete the comparisons. Purple and scarlet and their wearers are consumed by moths and become a country's reproach. A just man without idols is far from reproach. No ranking of the letter among all Scripture or doctrine about all religious objects is inferred.