Baruch 2:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are come upon us:

⁸ And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we might return every one of us from our most wicked ways.

⁹ And 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: