OLD TESTAMENT

Baruch 4:20

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I have put off the garment of peace, and put on the sackcloth of my petition. I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.

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Verse 20. Peace: the ornaments worn in my prosperity.—Sackcloth, or a rough garment, used by penitents and in times of public distress.

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