Baruch 2:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

⁶ “‘Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face to us and our fathers, as at this day. ⁷ All those calamities with which the Lord threatened us have come upon us.