Baruch 4:8 Catholic Bible: 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.

◄ Baruch 4:8 ►

Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.

Contemporary English Version
You rejected the eternal God who gave you life. And you caused much sadness for Jerusalem, the city that was a mother to you.

New American Bible
You forgot the eternal God who nourished you, and you grieved Jerusalem who nurtured you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.

Baruch 4:6
You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.

Baruch 4:7
For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.

Baruch 4:9
For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:

Baruch 4:10
For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.

Context

Baruch 4
…7For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God. 8For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you. 9For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:…

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