Baruch 2:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ Rather, it is those who are living and deeply grieved, bent over and frail in their movements, with failing eyesight and hungering soul, who will praise your glory and justice, O Lord.

¹⁹ “It is not because of the righteous deeds of our ancestors and our kings that we make bold to approach you with our plea for mercy, O Lord, our God. ²⁰ You have rained down your wrath and anger upon us, as you had announced through your servants the prophets, saying: