Baruch 1:15 – 2:10

And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth justice, but to us confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to all Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 16To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers. 17We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not believed him, nor put our trust in him: 18And we were not obedient to him, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments which he hath given us. 19From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going astray we turned away from hearing his voice. 20And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. 21And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us: 22And we have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God. 1Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda: 2That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses: 3That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter. 4And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us. 5And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice. 6To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. 7For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are come upon us: 8And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we might return every one of us from our most wicked ways. 9And the Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is just in all his works which he hath commanded us: 10And we have not hearkened to his voice to walk in the commandments of the Lord which he hath set before us.