Baruch 2:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ Some of us ate the flesh of their sons and others the flesh of their daughters. ⁴ He made them subject to all the kingdoms around us, to be an object of scorn and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them. ⁵ They were brought down and not raised up, because our nation^[a] sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.