Baruch 3:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ Hear the commandments of life, O Israel;
    give ear, and learn wisdom!
¹⁰ Why is it, O Israel, why is it that you are in the land of your enemies,
    that you are growing old in a foreign country,
that you are defiled with the dead,
¹¹     that you are counted among those in Hades?