10 How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead, (WEB) 11 that you are counted with those who are in Hades? (WEB) 12 You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom. (WEB)
Baruch 3:10–12
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Sirach 41:7–9
7 Children will complain of an ungodly father, because they suffer disgrace because of him. (WEB) 8 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the Most High God! (WEB) 9 If you are born, you will be born to a curse. If you die, a curse will be your portion. (WEB)
Isaiah 63:18–19
18 For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. 19 We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
2 Baruch 77:7–9
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2 Esdras 5:16–18
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2 Esdras 12:40–42
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Psalms 88:4–6
4 I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. 5 I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. 6 You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of…
Sirach 17:26–28
26 Turn again to the Most High, and turn away from iniquity. Greatly hate the abominable thing. (WEB) 27 Who will give praise to the Most High in Hades, in place of the living who return thanks? (WEB) 28 Thanksgiving perishes from the dead, as from one who doesn’t exist. He who is… (WEB)
Ezekiel 32:18–20
18 “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit: 19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised! 20 They will fall amon…
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