Baruch 2:24-26

New Catholic Bible

²⁴ “However, we disobeyed your command to serve the king of Babylon, and therefore you carried out the warning you had issued through your servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our ancestors would be uprooted from their burial sites. ²⁵ And indeed, those bones have been exposed to the daytime heat and the nighttime frost. They died in dreadful anguish, as a result of famine and sword and pestilence. ²⁶ Therefore, because of the wickedness of the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah, the house that bears your name you have reduced to its present state.