Common English Bible

Baruch 3:10-13 Common English Bible (CEB)

10. Why is it, Israel, that you are in the enemies’ land,growing old in a foreign land,

11. polluted by the dead,and counted as peoplealready in the grave?

12. You have abandoned the fountainfrom which wisdom flows.

13. If you had walked in the way of God,you would be living in peace forever.