5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel. (WEB) 6 You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries. (WEB) 7 For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God. (WEB)
Baruch 4:5–7
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