Baruch 4:6-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ It was not for destruction
    that you were sold to the nations,
but you were handed over to your enemies
    because you angered God.
⁷ For you provoked him who made you,
    by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
⁸ You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up,
    and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.
⁹ For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God,
    and she said:
“Hearken, you neighbors of Zion,
    God has brought great sorrow upon me;