Baruch 4:4-19
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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.
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13 They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
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14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
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15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
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16 These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
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17 But what can I help you?
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18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.
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19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.