Baruch 2:18-20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ but the person who is deeply grieved, who walks bowed and feeble, with failing eyes and famished soul, will declare your glory and righteousness, O Lord.

¹⁹ For it is not because of any righteous deeds of our ancestors or our kings that we bring before you our prayer for mercy, O Lord our God. ²⁰ For you have sent your anger and your wrath upon us, as you declared by your servants the prophets, saying: