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Baruch
chapter 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 Sedei, the son of Helcias, wrote in
Babylonia.
2 In the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month,
at the time that the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
3 And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing
of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hearing of all the
people that came to hear the book.
4 And in the hearing of the nobles, the sons of the
kings, and in the hearing of the ancients, and in the hearing of the people,
from the least even to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by the
river Sedi.
5 And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and
prayed before the Lord.
6 And they made a collection of money, according to
every man's power.
7 And they sent it to Jerusulem to Joakim the priest,
the son of Helcias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the
people, that were found with him in Jerusalem:
8 At the time when he received the vessels of the
temple of the Lord, which had been taken away out of the temple, to return them
into the land of Juda the tenth day of the month Sivan, the silver vessels,
which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,
9 After that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had
carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and all the powerful men, and the
people of the land from Jerusalem, and brought them bound to Babylon.
10 And they said: Behold we have sent you money, buy
with it holocausts, and frankincense, and make meat offerings, and offerings
for sin at the altar of the Lord our God:
11 And pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor the king
of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon
earth as the days of heaven:
12 And that the Lord may give us strength, and
enlighten our eyes, that we may live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the
king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and may serve them
many days, and may find favour in their sight.
13 And pray ye for us to the Lord our God: for we have
sinned against the Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned away from us even
to this day.
14 And read ye this book, which we have sent to you to
be read in the temple of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days.
15 And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth
justice, but to us confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to
all Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
16 To our kings, and to our princes, and to our
priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers.
17 We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not
believed him, nor put our trust in him:
18 And we were not obedient to him, and we have not
harkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments, which
he hath given us.
19 From the day that he brought our fathers out of the
land of Egypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and
going astray we turned away from hearing his voice.
20 And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses
which the Lord foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of
the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this
day.
21 And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord
our God according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us:
22 And we have gone away every man after the
inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in
the sight of the Lord our God.
Chapter2
1 Wherefore the Lord our God
hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have
judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and
Juda:
2 That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such
as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem,
according to the things that are written in the law of Moses:
3 That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and
the flesh of his own daughter.
4 And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of
all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among
all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.
5 And we are brought under, and are not uppermost:
because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.
6 To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and
to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.
7 For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these
evils that are come upon us:
8 And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our
God, that we might return every one of us from our most wicked ways.
9 And the Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath
brought it upon us: for the Lord is just in all his works which he hath
commanded us:
10 And we have not hearkened to his voice to walk in
the commandments of the Lord which he hath set before us.
11 And now, O Lord God of Israel, who hast brought thy
people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with
wonders, and with thy great power, and with a mighty arm, and hast made thee a
name as at this day,
12 We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have acted
unjustly, O Lord our God, against all thy justices.
13 Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are
left a few among the nations where thou hast scattered us.
14 Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our petitions, and deliver
us for thy own sake: and grant that we may find favour in the sight of them
that have led us away:
15 That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord
our God, and that thy name is called upon Israel, and upon his posterity.
16 Look down upon us, O Lord, from thy holy house, and
incline thy ear, and hear us.
17 Open thy eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in
hell, whose spirit is taken away from their bowels, shall not give glory and
justice to the Lord:
18 But the soul that is sorrowful for the greatness of
evil she hath done, and goeth bowed down, and feeble, and the eyes that fail,
and the hungry soul giveth glory and justice to thee the Lord.
19 For it is not for the justices of our fathers that
we pour out our prayers, and beg mercy in thy sight, O Lord our God:
20 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath, and thy
indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by the hand of thy servants the prophets,
saying:
21 Thus saith the Lord: Bow down your shoulder, and
your neck, and serve the king of Babylon: and you shall remain in the land
which I have given to your fathers.
22 But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord
your God, to serve the king of Babylon: I will cause you to depart out of the
cities of Juda, and from without Jerusalem.
23 And I will take away from you the voice of mirth,
and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride, and all the land shall be without any footstep of inhabitants.
24 And they hearkened not to thy voice, to serve the
king of Babylon: and thou hast made good thy words, which thou spokest by the
hands of thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings, and the bones
of our fathers should be removed out of their place:
25 And behold they are cast out to the heat of the sun,
and to the frost of the night: and they have died in grievous pains, by famine,
and by the sword, and in banishment.
26 And thou hast made the temple, in which thy name was
called upon, as it is at this day, for the iniquity of the house of Israel, and
the house of Juda.
27 And thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our God,
according to all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine:
28 As thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, in
the day when thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of
Israel,
29 Saying: If you will not hear my voice, this great
multitude shall be turned into a very small number among the nations, where I
will scatter them:
30 For I know that the people will not hear me, for
they are a people of a stiff neck: but they shall turn to their heart in the
land of their captivity:
31 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God:
and I will give them a heart, and they shall understand: and ears, and they shall
hear.
32 And they shall praise me in the land of their
captivity, and shall be mindful of my name.
33 And they shall turn away themselves from their stiff
neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their
fathers, that sinned against me.
34 And I will bring them back again into the land which
I promised with an oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they
shall be masters thereof: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be
diminished.
35 And I will make with them another covenant that
shall be everlasting, to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will
no more remove my people, the children of Israel, out of the land that I have
given them.
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