Baruch 2:19–27
19For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers and of our kings.↗
20For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, saying,↗
21“The Lord says, ‘Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.↗
22But if you won’t hear the voice of the Lord to serve the king of Babylon,↗
23I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah and from the region near Jerusalem the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. The whole land will be desolate without inhabitant.’”↗
24But we wouldn’t listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon. Therefore you have made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be taken out of their places.↗
25Behold, they are cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night. They died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.↗
26You have made the house that is called by your name as it is today because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.↗
27Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness and according to all your great mercy,↗
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