Baruch 3:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁹ Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life;
    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 land,
¹¹ that you are defiled with the dead,
    that you are counted among those in Hades?^(A)