Baruch 2:20-22

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ You have rained down your wrath and anger upon us, as you had announced through your servants the prophets, saying: ²¹ ‘Thus says the Lord: Bow your shoulders in the service of the king of Babylon, so that you can remain in the land that I gave to your fathers. ²² But if you refuse to heed the Lord’s command to serve the king of Babylon,