31 Miserable are those who afflicted you and rejoiced at your fall. (WEB) 32 Miserable are the cities which your children served. Miserable is she who received your sons. (WEB) 33 For as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad of your ruin, so she will be grieved at her own desolation. (WEB)
Baruch 4:31–33
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