Baruch 5

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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.	1 Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore,
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.	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 shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven.	3 for God means to show your splendour to every nation under heaven,
4 For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God's worship.	4 and the name God gives you for evermore wil be, 'Peace-through-Justice, and Glory-through-Devotion'.
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.	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 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.	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 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,	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 Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow 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 shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh 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: