Baruch 4:3-12
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3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
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4 O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
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5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
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6 Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
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7 For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
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8 Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
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9 For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
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10 For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
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11 With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
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12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.