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) 34 And I will take away her pride in her great multitude and her boasting will be turned into mourning. (WEB)
Baruch 4:32–34
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