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Baruch 2:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Open your eyes, and see; for the dead that are in Hades, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness; "
Baruch 2:17
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15 that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name.
16 O Lord, look down from your holy house and consider us. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear.
17 Open your eyes, and see; for the dead that are in Hades, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness;
18 but the soul who is greatly vexed, who goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will declare your glory and righteousness, O Lord.
19 For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers and of our kings.
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Baruch 2:1
"Therefore the Lord has made good his word which he pronounced against us, and against our judges who judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah,"
Baruch 2:2
"to bring upon us great plagues such as never happened before under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses,"
Baruch 2:3
"that we should each eat the flesh of our own son, and each eat the flesh of our own daughter."
Baruch 2:4
"Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the people around us, where the Lord has scattered them."
Baruch 2:5
"Thus they were cast down and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God in not listening to his voice."
Baruch 2:6
"To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day."
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