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Baruch 2:27 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness and according to all your great mercy, "
Baruch 2:27
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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.
27 Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness and according to all your great mercy,
28 as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you commanded him to write your law in the presence of the children of Israel, saying,
29 “If you won’t hear my voice, surely this very great multitude will be turned into a small number among the nations where I will scatter them.
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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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