Baruch 2:23-25

New Catholic Bible

²³ I will banish from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the shouts of joy and the sounds of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, and the whole land will be a desolate waste, without a single inhabitant.’

²⁴ “However, we disobeyed your command to serve the king of Babylon, and therefore you carried out the warning you had issued through your servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our ancestors would be uprooted from their burial sites. ²⁵ And indeed, those bones have been exposed to the daytime heat and the nighttime frost. They died in dreadful anguish, as a result of famine and sword and pestilence.