Baruch 9:13

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Sicut scriptum est in lege Moysi, omne malum hoc venit super nos : et non rogavimus faciem tuam, Domine Deus noster, ut reverteremur ab iniquitatibus nostris, et cogitaremus veritatem tuam.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Sicut scriptum est in lege Moysi, omne malum hoc venit super nos: et non rogavimus faciem tuam, Domine Deus noster, ut reverteremur ab iniquitatibus nostris, et cogitaremus veritatem tuam.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Sicut scriptum est in lege Moysis, omne malum hoc venit super nos, et non rogavimus faciem Domini Dei nostri, ut reverteremur ab iniquitatibus nostris et cogitaremus veritatem tuam.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As it is: Thus every succeeding part of the Sacred writings attests and prove the Divine authority of the preceding. The history relates the fulfilment of former predictions; and then new prophecies are add, which future events accomplish, and thus demonstrate their inspiration to the latest ages. Daniel 9:11, Leviticus 26:14-46, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Isaiah 42:9, Lamentations 2:15-17, John 10:35

made we not our prayer before: Heb. intreated we not the face of, Job 36:13, Isaiah 9:13, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 5:3, Hosea 7:7, Hosea 7:10, Hosea 7:14

that we: Deuteronomy 29:4, Psalms 85:4, Psalms 119:18, Psalms 119:27, Psalms 119:73, Isaiah 64:7, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 44:27, Lamentations 5:21, Luke 24:45, John 6:45, John 8:32, Ephesians 1:17, Ephesians 1:18, Ephesians 4:21, James 1:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:9 - Moses 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return Nehemiah 1:7 - which thou Psalms 44:17 - All this Isaiah 31:1 - neither Isaiah 43:22 - thou hast not Isaiah 59:20 - unto Jeremiah 36:7 - It may Ezekiel 18:30 - Repent Ezekiel 24:12 - her great Ezekiel 33:11 - turn ye Acts 3:19 - be

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us,.... As it is there threatened it should, and as it is there foretold it would come upon them, so it has; even the selfsame things, in the same manner, and with the same circumstances, as there foretold; which is a proof of the omniscience, omnipotence, and faithfulness of God, and an evidence of the truth of divine revelation; see

Leviticus 26:1:

yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God; during the seventy years captivity, they might have prayed, and doubtless did, in a lifeless, formal manner; but not sincerely and heartily, in faith and with fervency, under a sense of sin, with confession of it, and true repentance for it, and so as to forsake it, as follows:

that we might turn from our iniquities; for since they did not pray against sin, and entreat the Lord to enable them to turn from it, and forsake it, but continued in a course of disobedience, their prayer was not reckoned prayer:

and understand thy truth; either the truth and faithfulness of God, in fulfilling both his promises and his threatenings; or his law, which is truth, as Jacchiades interprets it; for, had they prayed aright, they would have had an understanding given them of divine truths, both with respect to doctrine and practice; of which they were ignorant, as prayerless persons usually are.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As it is written in the law of Moses - The word law was given to all the writings of Moses. See the notes at Luke 24:44.

Yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God - Margin, “entreated we not the face of.” The Hebrew word used here (חלה châlâh) means, properly, “to be polished;” then to be worn down in strength, to be weak; then to be sick, or diseased; then in Piel (the form used here), to rub or stroke the face of anyone, to soothe or caress, and hence, to beseech, or supplicate. See Gesenius, “Lexicon” Here it means, that, as a people, they had failed, when they had sinned, to call upon God for pardon; to confess their sins; to implore his mercy; to deprecate his wrath. It would have been easy to turn aside his threatened judgments if they had been penitent, and had sought his mercy, but they had not done it. What is here said of them can and will be said of all sinners when the Divine judgment comes upon them.

That we might turn from, our iniquities - That we might seek grace to turn from our transgressions. “And understand thy truth.” The truth which God had revealed; equivalent to saying that they might be righteous.