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Baruch 2:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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 2:4

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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,

3 that we should each eat the flesh of our own son, and each eat the flesh of our own daughter.

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.

5 Thus they were cast down and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God in not listening to his voice.

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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Baruch 3:8

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"Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the Lord our God."

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Tobit 3:4

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"For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed."

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Jeremiah 24:9

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"I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them."

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Judith 8:22

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"The slaughter of our kindred, the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will bring on our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offense and a reproach to those who take us for a possession."

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Nehemiah 4:4

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"“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity."

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Psalms 106:27

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"that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands."

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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 2:5

"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."

Baruch 2:7

"All these plagues have come upon us which the Lord has pronounced against us."

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