Baruch 2:1-3

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 2

Punishment of Sin. ¹ “Therefore, the Lord carried out the penalty that he threatened to inflict upon us: upon our judges who governed Israel, upon our kings and rulers, and upon the people of Israel and Judah. ² The evils he permitted to afflict Jerusalem have been of such intensity that they have never been paralleled anywhere under the heavens, as was foretold in the law of Moses: ³ that we would sink to the depravity of eating the flesh of our young sons and daughters.