“God "removed our sins from us," but we are attracted to them, and for them we are punished. It says that he sends, because nothing happens without God's consent. The "perverse nation" was first the Babylonians, then the Romans. This can also be understood as those who teach false knowledge, resorting to the deceptions…”
Olympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — FRAGMENTS ON BARUCH 4:15
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15For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
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In context
13They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
14Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
— Baruch 4:15 —
16These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.