Baruch 3

KING JAMES BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.	1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death.
2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; ar thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee.	2 Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof.
3 For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly.	3 Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation.
4 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.	4 We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us.
5 Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time.	5 Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
6 For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise.	6 You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.
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.	7 For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
8 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.	8 For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
9 Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.	9 For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:
10 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,	10 For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
11 That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?	11 For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.	12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.
13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.	13 And they have not known his justices, nor walked by the ways of God's commandments, neither have they entered by the paths of his truth and justice.
14 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.	14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
15 Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures ?	15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from afar, a wicked nation, and of a strange tongue:
16 Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;	16 Who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children, and have carried away the beloved of the widow, and have left me all alone without children.
17 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?	17 But as for me, what help can I give you?
18 For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,	18 But he that hath brought the evils upon you, he will deliver you out of the hands of your enemies.
19 They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.	19 Go your way, my children, go your way: for I am left alone.
20 Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,	20 I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days.
21 Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way.	21 Be of good comfort, my children, cry to the Lord, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the princes your enemies.
22 It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.	22 For my hope is in the Eternal that he will save you: and joy is come upon me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall come to you from our everlasting Saviour.
23 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.	23 For I sent you forth with mourning and weeping: but the Lord will bring you back to me with joy and gladness for ever.
24 O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!	24 For as the neighbours of Sion have now seen your captivity from God: so shall they also shortly see your salvation from God, which shall come upon you with great honour, and everlasting glory.
25 Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.	25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you: for thy enemy hath persecuted thee, but thou shalt quickly see his destruction: and thou shalt get up upon his neck.
26 There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in war.	26 My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were taken away as a flock made a prey by the enemies.
27 Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them:	27 Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away.
28 But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness.	28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much.
29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?	29 For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
30 Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold?	30 Be of good heart, O Jerusalem: for he exhorteth thee, that named thee.
31 No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.	31 The wicked that have afflicted thee, shall perish: and they that have rejoiced at thy ruin, shall be punished.
32 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:	32 The cities which thy children have served, shall be punished: and she that received thy sons.
33 He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear.	33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
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.	34 And the joy of her multitude shall be cut off: and her gladness shall be turned to mourning.
35 This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him	35 For fire shall come upon her from the Eternal, long to endure, and she shall be inhabited by devils for a great time.
36 He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.	36 Look about thee, O Jerusalem, towards the east, and behold the joy that cometh to thee from God.
37 Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men.	37 For behold thy children come, whom thou sentest away scattered, they come gathered together from the east even to the west, at the word of the Holy One rejoicing for the honour of God.