Baruch 2:5

5 Thus we were cast down and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God and have not been obedient unto His voice.

Baruch 2:5 In-Context

3 that a man would eat the flesh of his own son and the flesh of his own daughter.

4 Moreover He hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them.

5 Thus we were cast down and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God and have not been obedient unto His voice.

6 "`To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness; but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.

7 For all these plagues have come upon us, which the Lord hath pronounced against us;