Baruch 5

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore,	1 Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery; put on the splendor of glory from God forever:
2 wrap the cloak of God's saving justice around you, put the diadem of the Eternal One's glory on yourhead,	2 Wrapped in the cloak of justice from God, bear on your head the mitre that displays the glory of the eternal name.
3 for God means to show your splendour to every nation under heaven,	3 For God will show all the earth your splendor:
4 and the name God gives you for evermore wil be, 'Peace-through-Justice, and Glory-through-Devotion'.	4 you will be named by God forever the peace of justice, the glory of God's worship.
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.	5 Up, Jerusalem! stand upon the heights; look to the east and see your children Gathered from the east and the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that they are remembered by God.
6 Though they left you on foot driven by enemies, now God brings them back to you, carried gloriously,like a royal throne.	6 Led away on foot by their enemies they left you: but God will bring them back to you borne aloft in glory as on royal thrones.
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.	7 For God has commanded that every lofty mountain be made low, And that the age-old depths and gorges be filled to level ground, that Israel may advance secure in the glory of God.
8 And the forests and every fragrant tree wil provide shade for Israel, at God's command;	8 The forests and every fragrant kind of tree have overshadowed Israel at God's command;
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:	9 For God is leading Israel in joy by the light of his glory, with his mercy and justice for company.