Baruch 3:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸See, we are today in our exile where you have scattered us, to be reproached and cursed and punished for all the iniquities of our ancestors, who forsook the Lord our God.

In Praise of Wisdom

⁹Hear the commandments of life, O Israel;
give ear, and learn wisdom!
¹⁰Why is it, O Israel, why is it that you are in the land of your enemies,
that you are growing old in a foreign country,
that you are defiled with the dead,

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