24 But we wouldn’t listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon. Therefore you have made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be taken out of their places. (WEB) 25 Behold, they are cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night. They died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence. (WEB) 26 You have made the house that is called by your name as it is today because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah. (WEB)
Baruch 2:24–26
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