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Baruch 2:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Baruch 2:5

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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.

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

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Baruch 3:8

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Baruch 1:18

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"We have disobeyed him and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us."

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Jeremiah 3:25

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"Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the LORD our God’s voice.”"

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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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2 Kings 18:12

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"because they didn’t obey the LORD their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it or do it."

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Jeremiah 3:21

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"A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God."

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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 2:6

"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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