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Baruch 2:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But 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. "
Baruch 2:24
Verse in Context
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22 But if you won’t hear the voice of the Lord to serve the king of Babylon,
23 I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah and from the region near Jerusalem the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. The whole land will be desolate without inhabitant.’”
24 But 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.
25 Behold, 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.
26 You 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.
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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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