Baruch 2:5

5 They were brought down and not raised up, because our nation sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.

Baruch 2:5 In-Context

3 Some of us ate the flesh of their sons and others the flesh of their daughters.

4 He made them subject to all the kingdoms around us, to be an object of scorn and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them.

5 They were brought down and not raised up, because our nation sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.

6 The Lord our God is in the right, but there is open shame on us and our ancestors this very day.

7 All those calamities with which the Lord threatened us have come upon us.

Footnotes

• [a] Gk [because we]