7 For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God. (WEB) 8 You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you. (WEB) 9 For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, “Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning. (WEB)
Baruch 4:7–9
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