Baruch 2:9
“He calls his punishment "the swiftness of the Lord." The Scripture often calls his patience "sleep." Moreover, recalling the punishment, they affirm that the Lord is just. Indeed, it was because they had transgressed and did not want to be healed that he punished them. Then they humbly beg him, remembering the ancient…”
Source: Septuagint
9Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us.
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7For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath pronounced against us.
8Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.
— Baruch 2:9 —
10Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.
11And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day: