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Baruch 4:7 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God. "
Baruch 4:7
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5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
6 You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries.
7 For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
8 You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you.
9 For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, “Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning.
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Baruch 4:1
"This is the book of God’s commandments and the law that endures forever. All those who hold it fast will live, but those who leave it will die."
Baruch 4:2
"Turn, O Jacob, and take hold of it. Walk toward the shining of its light."
Baruch 4:3
"Don’t give your glory to another, nor the things that are to your advantage to a foreign nation."
Baruch 4:4
"O Israel, we are happy; for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us."
Baruch 4:5
"Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel."
Baruch 4:6
"You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries."
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