Baruch

1Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever. 2Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting. 3For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven. 4For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God's worship. 5Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from…

1This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die. 2Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated. 3Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation. 4O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us. 5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel. 6Ye…

1O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee. 2Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee. 3For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly. 4O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us. 5Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy…

1Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda, 2To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses; 3That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter. 4Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms…

1And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon, 2In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire. 3And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book, 4And in the hearing of the nobles, and…