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Baruch 2:6-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

6. To the Lord our God is justice, but to us and to our fathers is confusion of face, just as on this day.

7. For the Lord has pronounced against us all these evils, which have overcome us.

8. And we have not beseeched the face of the Lord our God, so that we might return, each one of us from our most sinful ways.

9. And the Lord has watched over us for evil and has brought it upon us, because the Lord is just in all his works that he has commanded us,

10. and we have not listened to his own voice, so as to walk according to the teachings of the Lord, which he has set before our face.

11. And now, O Lord God of Israel, who has led your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with your great power, and with an exalted arm, and has made a name for yourself, just as on this day,

12. we have sinned, we become impious, we have acted unjustly, O Lord our God, against all your principles.

13. May your wrath be turned away from us because, having been forsaken, we are few among the irreligious where you have scattered us.

14. Heed, O Lord, our petitions and our prayers, and deliver us for your own sake, and grant that we may find favor before the face of those who have led us away,

15. so that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, and because your name has been invoked over Israel and over his posterity.

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