Baruch 4:1–9
1This is the book of God’s commandments and the law that endures forever. All those who hold it fast will live, but those who leave it will die.↗
2Turn, O Jacob, and take hold of it. Walk toward the shining of its light.↗
3Don’t give your glory to another, nor the things that are to your advantage to a foreign nation.↗
4O Israel, we are happy; for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.↗
5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.↗
6You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries.↗
7For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God.↗
8You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you.↗
9For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, “Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning.↗
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