Baruch 5

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 “ ‘Take off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your sorrow and troubles, and put on your beauty and the honor of that eternal glory, which you have from God.	1 Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore,
2 God will surround you with a double garment of justice, and he will set a crown on your head of everlasting honor.	2 wrap the cloak of God's saving justice around you, put the diadem of the Eternal One's glory on yourhead,
3 For God will reveal his splendor in you to all who are under heaven.	3 for God means to show your splendour to every nation under heaven,
4 For your name will be given to you by God for eternity: the peace of justice and the honor of piety.	4 and the name God gives you for evermore wil be, 'Peace-through-Justice, and Glory-through-Devotion'.
5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand in exaltation, and look around towards the east, and see your sons, gathering together, from the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun, by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God.	5 Arise, Jerusalem, stand on the heights and turn your eyes to the east: see your children reassembledfrom west and east at the Holy One's command, rejoicing because God has remembered.
6 For they went out from you on foot, led by the enemies, but the Lord will lead them to you, being carried in honor like sons of the kingdom.	6 Though they left you on foot driven by enemies, now God brings them back to you, carried gloriously,like a royal throne.
7 For God has resolved to humble every high mountain and the longstanding cliffs, and to fill up the steep valleys in order to level the ground, so that Israel may walk diligently in the honor of God.	7 For God has decreed the flattening of each high mountain, of the everlasting hills, the fil ing of theval eys to make the ground level so that Israel can walk safely in God's glory.
8 Yet the woods and every sweet-smelling tree have provided shade for Israel by the commandment of God.	8 And the forests and every fragrant tree wil provide shade for Israel, at God's command;
9 For God will lead Israel with joy into the light of his majesty, with mercy and justice, which is from him.’ ”	9 for God wil guide Israel in joy by the light of his glory, with the mercy and saving justice which comefrom him. A copy of the letter which Jeremiah sent to those about to be led captive to Babylon by the king of theBabylonians, to tel them what he had been commanded by God: