The Book of Baruch, Chapter 1

The Book of Baruch 1:1

And 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,
The Book of Baruch 1:2
In the fifth year, and in
the seventh day of the month, what
time as the Chaldeans took
Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
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And 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,
The Book of Baruch 1:4
And in the hearing of
the nobles, and of the king's sons, and
in the hearing of the elders, and of all
the people, from the lowest unto the
highest, even of all them that dwelt at
Babylon by the river Sud.
The Book of Baruch 1:5
Whereupon they wept,
fasted, and prayed before the Lord.
The Book of Baruch 1:6
They made also a
collection of money according to
every man's power:
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And they sent it to
Jerusalem unto Joachim the high
priest, the son of Chelcias, son of
Salom, and to the priests, and to all
the people which were found with
him at Jerusalem,
The Book of Baruch 1:8
At the same time when
he received the vessels of the house of
the Lord, that were carried out of the
temple, to return them into the land
of Juda, the tenth day of the month
Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which
Sedecias the son of Josias king of
Jada had made,
The Book of Baruch 1:9
After that
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had
carried away Jechonias, and the
princes, and the captives, and the
mighty men, and the people of the
land, from Jerusalem, and brought
them unto Babylon.
The Book of Baruch 1:10
And they said, Behold,
we have sent you money to buy you
burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and
incense, and prepare ye manna, and
offer upon the altar of the Lord our
God;
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And pray for the life of
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,
and for the life of Balthasar his son,
that their days may be upon earth as
the days of heaven:
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And the Lord will give
us strength, and lighten our eyes, and
we shall live under the shadow of
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,
and under the shadow of Balthasar
his son, and we shall serve them
many days, and find favour in their
sight.
The Book of Baruch 1:13
Pray for us also unto
the Lord our God, for we have sinned
against the Lord our God; and unto
this day the fury of the Lord and his
wrath is not turned from us.
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And ye shall read this
book which we have sent unto you, to
make confession in the house of the
Lord, upon the feasts and solemn
days.
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And ye shall say, To
the Lord our God belongeth
righteousness, but unto us the
confusion of faces, as it is come to
pass this day, unto them of Juda, and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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And to our kings, and
to our princes, and to our priests, and
to our prophets, and to our fathers:
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For we have sinned
before the Lord,
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And disobeyed him,
and have not hearkened unto the
voice of the Lord our God, to walk in
the commandments that he gave us
openly:
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Since the day that the
Lord brought our forefathers out of
the land of Egypt, unto this present
day, we have been disobedient unto
the Lord our God, and we have been
negligent in not hearing his voice.
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Wherefore the evils
cleaved unto us, and the curse, which
the Lord appointed by Moses his
servant at the time that he brought
our fathers out of the land of Egypt,
to give us a land that floweth with
milk and honey, like as it is to see this
day.
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Nevertheless we have
not hearkened unto the voice of the
Lord our God, according unto all the
words of the prophets, whom he sent
unto us:
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But every man
followed the imagination of his own
wicked heart, to serve strange gods,
and to do evil in the sight of the Lord
our God.
The Book of Baruch, Chapter 2
The Book of Baruch 2:1
Therefore 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,
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To 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;
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That a man should eat
the flesh of his own son, and the flesh
of his own daughter.
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Moreover he hath
delivered them to be in subjection to
all the kingdoms that are round about
us, to be as a reproach and desolation
among all the people round about,
where the Lord hath scattered them.
The Book of Baruch 2:5
Thus we were cast
down, and not exalted, because we
have sinned against the Lord our
God, and have not been obedient
unto his voice.
The Book of Baruch 2:6
To the Lord our God
appertaineth righteousness: but unto
us and to our fathers open shame, as
appeareth this day.
The Book of Baruch 2:7
For all these plagues
are come upon us, which the Lord
hath pronounced against us
The Book of Baruch 2:8
Yet have we not prayed
before the Lord, that we might turn
every one from the imaginations of
his wicked heart.
The Book of Baruch 2:9
Wherefore 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.
The Book of Baruch 2:10
Yet we have not
hearkened unto his voice, to walk in
the commandments of the Lord, that
he hath set before us.
The Book of Baruch 2:11
And 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:
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O Lord our God, we
have sinned, we have done ungodly,
we have dealt unrighteously in all
thine ordinances.
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Let thy wrath turn
from us: for we are but a few left
among the heathen, where thou hast
scattered us.
The Book of Baruch 2:14
Hear our prayers, O
Lord, and our petitions, and deliver
us for thine own sake, and give us
favour in the sight of them which
have led us away:
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That all the earth may
know that thou art the Lord our God,
because Israel and his posterity is
called by thy name.
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O Lord, look down
from thine holy house, and consider
us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to
hear us.
The Book of Baruch 2:17
Open thine eyes, and
behold; for the dead that are in the
graves, whose souls are taken from
their bodies, will give unto the Lord
neither praise nor righteousness:
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But the soul that is
greatly vexed, which goeth stooping
and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and
the hungry soul, will give thee praise
and righteousness, O Lord.
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Therefore we do not
make our humble supplication before
thee, O Lord our God, for the
righteousness of our fathers, and of
our kings.
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For thou hast sent out
thy wrath and indignation upon us,
as thou hast spoken by thy servants
the prophets, saying,
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Thus saith the Lord,
Bow down your shoulders to serve
the king of Babylon: so shall ye
remain in the land that I gave unto
your fathers.
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But if ye will not hear
the voice of the Lord, to serve the
king of Babylon,
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I will cause to cease
out of the cites of Judah, and from
without Jerusalem, the voice of
mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice
of the bridegroom, and the voice of
the bride: and the whole land shall be
desolate of inhabitants.
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But we would not
hearken unto thy voice, to serve the
king of Babylon: therefore hast thou
made good the words that thou
spakest by thy servants the prophets,
namely, that the bones of our kings,
and the bones of our fathers, should
be taken out of their place.
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And, lo, they are cast
out to the heat of the day, and to the
frost of the night, and they died in
great miseries by famine, by sword,
and by pestilence.
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And the house which
is called by thy name hast thou laid
waste, as it is to be seen this day, for
the wickedness of the house of Israel
and the house of Juda.
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O Lord our God, thou
hast dealt with us after all thy
goodness, and according to all that
great mercy of thine,
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As thou spakest by thy
servant Moses in the day when thou
didst command him to write the law
before the children of Israel, saying,
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If ye will not hear my
voice, surely this very great multitude
shall be turned into a small number
among the nations, where I will
scatter them.
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For I knew that they
would not hear me, because it is a
stiffnecked people: but in the land of
their captivities they shall remember
themselves.
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And shall know that I
am the Lord their God: for I will give
them an heart, and ears to hear:
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And they shall praise
me in the land of their captivity, and
think upon my name,
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And return from their
stiff neck, and from their wicked
deeds: for they shall remember the
way of their fathers, which sinned
before the Lord.
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And I will bring them
again into the land which I promised
with an oath unto their fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they
shall be lords of it: and I will increase
them, and they shall not be
diminished.
The Book of Baruch 2:35
And I will make an
everlasting covenant with them to be
their God, and they shall be my
people: and I will no more drive my
people of Israel out of the land that I
have given them.
The Book of Baruch, Chapter 3
The Book of Baruch 3:1
O Lord Almighty, God
of Israel, the soul in anguish the
troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.
The Book of Baruch 3:2
Hear, O Lord, and have
mercy; ar thou art merciful: and have
pity upon us, because we have sinned
before thee.
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For thou endurest for
ever, and we perish utterly.
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O 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.
The Book of Baruch 3:5
Remember not the
iniquities of our forefathers: but
think upon thy power and thy name
now at this time.
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For thou art the Lord
our God, and thee, O Lord, will we
praise.
The Book of Baruch 3:7
And for this cause thou
hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the
intent that we should call upon thy
name, and praise thee in our
captivity: for we have called to mind
all the iniquity of our forefathers, that
sinned before thee.
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Behold, we are yet this
day in our captivity, where thou hast
scattered us, for a reproach and a
curse, and to be subject to payments,
according to all the iniquities of our
fathers, which departed from the
Lord our God.
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Hear, Israel, the
commandments of life: give ear to
understand wisdom.
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How happeneth it
Israel, that thou art in thine enemies'
land, that thou art waxen old in a
strange country, that thou art defiled
with the dead,
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That thou art counted
with them that go down into the
grave?
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Thou hast forsaken the
fountain of wisdom.
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For if thou hadst
walked in the way of God, thou
shouldest have dwelled in peace for
ever.
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Learn where is
wisdom, where is strength, where is
understanding; that thou mayest
know also where is length of days,
and life, where is the light of the eyes,
and peace.
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Who hath found out
her place? or who hath come into her
treasures ?
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Where are the princes
of the heathen become, and such as
ruled the beasts upon the earth;
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They that had their
pastime with the fowls of the air, and
they that hoarded up silver and gold,
wherein men trust, and made no end
of their getting?
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For they that wrought
in silver, and were so careful, and
whose works are unsearchable,
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They are vanished and
gone down to the grave, and others
are come up in their steads.
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Young men have seen
light, and dwelt upon the earth: but
the way of knowledge have they not
known,
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Nor understood the
paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their
children were far off from that way.
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It hath not been heard
of in Chanaan, neither hath it been
seen in Theman.
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The Agarenes that
seek wisdom upon earth, the
merchants of Meran and of Theman,
the authors of fables, and searchers
out of understanding; none of these
have known the way of wisdom, or
remember her paths.
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O Israel, how great is
the house of God! and how large is
the place of his possession!
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Great, and hath none
end; high, and unmeasurable.
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There were the giants
famous from the beginning, that were
of so great stature, and so expert in
war.
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Those did not the Lord
choose, neither gave he the way of
knowledge unto them:
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But they were
destroyed, because they had no
wisdom, and perished through their
own foolishness.
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Who hath gone up into
heaven, and taken her, and brought
her down from the clouds?
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Who hath gone over
the sea, and found her, and will bring
her for pure gold?
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No man knoweth her
way, nor thinketh of her path.
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But he that knoweth
all things knoweth her, and hath
found her out with his
understanding: he that prepared the
earth for evermore hath filled it with
fourfooted beasts:
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He that sendeth forth
light, and it goeth, calleth it again,
and it obeyeth him with fear.
The Book of Baruch 3:34
The stars shined in
their watches, and rejoiced: when he
calleth them, they say, Here we be;
and so with cheerfulness they shewed
light unto him that made them.
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This is our God, and
there shall none other be accounted
of in comparison of him
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He hath found out all
the way of knowledge, and hath given
it unto Jacob his servant, and to
Israel his beloved.
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Afterward did he shew
himself upon earth, and conversed
with men.
The Book of Baruch, Chapter 4
The Book of Baruch 4:1
This 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.
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Turn thee, O Jacob,
and take hold of it: walk in the
presence of the light thereof, that
thou mayest be illuminated.
The Book of Baruch 4:3
Give not thine honour
to another, nor the things that are
profitable unto thee to a strange
nation.
The Book of Baruch 4:4
O Israel, happy are we:
for things that are pleasing to God are
made known unto us.
The Book of Baruch 4:5
Be of good cheer, my
people, the memorial of Israel.
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Ye were sold to the
nations, not for 4:your destruction:
but because ye moved God to wrath,
ye were delivered unto the enemies.
The Book of Baruch 4:7
For ye provoked him
that made you by sacrificing unto
devils, and not to God.
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Ye have forgotten the
everlasting God, that brought you up;
and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that
nursed you.
The Book of Baruch 4:9
For when she saw the
wrath of God coming upon you, she
said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about
Sion: God hath brought upon me
great mourning;
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For I saw the captivity
of my sons and daughters, which the
Everlasting brought upon them.
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With joy did I nourish
them; but sent them away with
weeping and mourning.
The Book of Baruch 4:12
Let no man rejoice
over me, a widow, and forsaken of
many, who for the sins of my children
am left desolate; because they
departed from the law of God.
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They knew not his
statutes, nor walked in the ways of his
commandments, nor trod in the
paths of discipline in his
righteousness.
The Book of Baruch 4:14
Let them that dwell
about Sion come, and remember ye
the captivity of my sons and
daughters, which the Everlasting
hath brought upon them.
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For 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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These have carried
away the dear beloved children of the
widow, and left her that was alone
desolate without daughters.
The Book of Baruch 4:17
But what can I help
you?
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For he that brought
these plagues upon you will deliver
you from the hands of your enemies.
The Book of Baruch 4:19
Go your way, O my
children, go your way: for I am left
desolate.
The Book of Baruch 4:20
I have put off the
clothing of peace, and put upon me
the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry
unto the Everlasting in my days.
The Book of Baruch 4:21
Be of good cheer, O my
children, cry unto the Lord, and he
will deliver you from the power and
hand of the enemies.
The Book of Baruch 4:22
For my hope is in the
Everlasting, that he will save you; and
joy is come unto me from the Holy
One, because of the mercy which
shall soon come unto you from the
Everlasting our Saviour.
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For I sent you out with
mourning and weeping: but God will
give you to me again with joy and
gladness for ever.
The Book of Baruch 4:24
Like as now the
neighbours of Sion have seen your
captivity: so shall they see shortly
your salvation from our God which
shall come upon you with great glory,
and brightness of the Everlasting.
The Book of Baruch 4:25
My children, suffer
patiently the wrath that is come upon
you from God: for thine enemy hath
persecuted thee; but shortly thou
shalt see his destruction, and shalt
tread upon his neck.
The Book of Baruch 4:26
My delicate ones have
gone rough ways, and were taken
away as a flock caught of the enemies.
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Be of good comfort, O
my children, and cry unto God: for ye
shall be remembered of him that
brought these things upon you.
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For as it was your
mind to go astray from God: so, being
returned, seek him ten times more.
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For he that hath
brought these plagues upon you shall
bring you everlasting joy with your
salvation.
The Book of Baruch 4:30
Take a good heart, O
Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that
name will comfort thee.
The Book of Baruch 4:31
Miserable are they that
afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.
The Book of Baruch 4:32
Miserable are the
cities which thy children served:
miserable is she that received thy
sons.
The Book of Baruch 4:33
For as she rejoiced at
thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so
shall she be grieved for her own
desolation.
The Book of Baruch 4:34
For I will take away
the rejoicing of her great multitude,
and her pride shall be turned into
mourning.
The Book of Baruch 4:35
For fire shall come
upon her from the Everlasting, long
to endure; and she shall be inhabited
of devils for a great time.
The Book of Baruch 4:36
O Jerusalem, look
about thee toward the east, and
behold the joy that cometh unto thee
from God.
The Book of Baruch 4:37
Lo, thy sons come,
whom thou sentest away, they come
gathered together from the east to the
west by the word of the Holy One,
rejoicing in the glory of God.
The Book of Baruch, Chapter 5
The Book of Baruch 5:1
Put off, O Jerusalem,
the garment of mourning and
affliction, and put on the comeliness
of the glory that cometh from God for
ever.
The Book of Baruch 5:2
Cast 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.
The Book of Baruch 5:3
For God will shew thy
brightness unto every country under
heaven.
The Book of Baruch 5:4
For thy name shall be
called of God for ever The peace of
righteousness, and The glory of God's
worship.
The Book of Baruch 5:5
Arise, O Jerusalem,
and stand on high, and look about
toward the east, and behold thy
children gathered from the west unto
the east by the word of the Holy One,
rejoicing in the remembrance of God.
The Book of Baruch 5:6
For they departed from
thee on foot, and were led away of
their enemies: but God bringeth them
unto thee exalted with glory, as
children of the kingdom.
The Book of Baruch 5:7
For God hath
appointed that every high hill, and
banks of long continuance, should be
cast down, and valleys filled up, to
make even the ground, that Israel
may go safely in the glory of God,
The Book of Baruch 5:8
Moreover even the
woods and every sweetsmelling tree
shall overshadow Israel by the
commandment of God.
The Book of Baruch 5:9
For God shall lead
Israel with joy in the light of his glory
with the mercy and righteousness
that cometh from him.