Baruch 4:7-9

Good News Translation

⁷ When you offered sacrifices to demons instead of to God, you angered the one who made you. ⁸ You forgot the Eternal God, who had nourished you as a child, and so you brought grief to Jerusalem, who had been like a mother to you. ⁹ Jerusalem saw that God was punishing you because he was angry, and she said to all the neighboring cities,