Baruch 3:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ You have scattered us among the nations, and you have made them despise and curse us. You are punishing us for the sins of our ancestors when they rebelled against you, the Lord our God.

In Praise of Wisdom

^9 (A)Listen, Israel, to the commands that promise life; pay attention, and you will become wise. ¹⁰ Why is it, Israel, that you find yourself in an enemy land? Why have you grown old in a foreign country? You are ritually unclean, like the dead;