Baruch 4

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 “ ‘This is the book of the commandments of God and of the law, which exists in eternity. All those who keep it will attain to life, but those who have forsaken it, to death.	1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
2 Convert, O Jacob, and embrace it, walk in the way of its splendor, facing its light.	2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
3 Do not surrender your glory to another, nor your value to a foreign people.	3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
4 We have been happy, O Israel, because the things that are pleasing to God have been made clear to us.	4 O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
5 Be ever more peaceful in soul, O people of God, the memorial of Israel.	5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
6 You have been sold to the nations, not into destruction, but because of this, in resentment, you provoked God to wrath, and so you have been delivered to adversity.	6 Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
7 For you have exasperated him who made you, the eternal God, by sacrificing to evil spirits, and not to God.	7 For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
8 For you have forgotten God, who nurtured you, and you have saddened Jerusalem, your nurse.	8 Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
9 For she saw the wrath of God approaching you, and she said, “Listen, region of Zion, for God has brought upon me great sorrow.	9 For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
10 For I have seen the captivity of my people, my sons and daughters, which the Eternal has led over them.	10 For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
11 For I nurtured them with joy, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.	11 With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12 Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and a desolation, for I am forsaken by many because of the sins of my sons, because they strayed from the law of God.	12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.
13 And they have not known his righteousness, nor walked in the ways of the commandments of God, nor have they advanced with justice along the paths of his truth.	13 They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
14 Let the region of Zion approach, and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal led over them.	14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
15 For he has brought a far away people upon them, a guilty people, and of another language,	15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
16 who have not reverenced the aged, nor had mercy on the children, and who have led away the beloved of the widow, leaving me deserted and alone, without sons.	16 These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
17 But as for me, how am I able to help you?	17 But what can I help you?
18 For he who has brought these evils upon you, will rescue you from the hands of your enemies.	18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.
19 Walk on, sons, walk on, for I have been abandoned and I am alone.	19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.
20 I have taken off the garment of peace and have put on the sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry out to the most High in my days.	20 I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days.
21 Be ever more peaceful, sons. Cry out to the Lord, and he will rescue you from the hand of the hostile leaders.	21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.
22 For I have placed my hope in your eternal salvation, and joy approaches me from the Holy One, over the mercy which will come to you by our eternal salvation.	22 For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.
23 For I sent you forth with sorrow and weeping, but the Lord will restore you to me with joy and gladness for eternity.	23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.
24 For just as the neighbors of Zion have seen your captivity from God, so also will they soon see your salvation from God, which will overcome you with great honor and eternal splendor.	24 Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.
25 Sons, endure patiently the wrath that has come upon you, for your enemy has persecuted you, but you will quickly see his destruction and you will climb over his neck.	25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.
26 My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were regarded as a flock torn apart by enemies.	26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.
27 Be ever more peaceful in soul, sons, and call out to the Lord, for you will be remembered by him who led you away.	27 Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.
28 For as much as you thought to go astray from God, ten times as much again he will require of you when converting.	28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more.
29 For he who led you into evil, he himself will again lead you to eternal happiness with your salvation.”	29 For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
30 Be ever more peaceful in soul, Jerusalem, for he who has named you, has been affected by you.	30 Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.
31 The criminals who have troubled you, will perish, and those who rejoiced in your ruin, will be punished.	31 Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.
32 The cities that your sons have served, will be punished, and also, she who received your sons.	32 Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.
33 For just as she was glad at your ruin, and she rejoiced in your fall, so also will she be grieved in her own desolation,	33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
34 and the exaltation of her multitude will be cut off, and her gladness will be turned to sorrow.	34 For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.
35 For fire will overcome her from the Eternal for many days, and she will be inhabited by evil spirits for a long time.	35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.
36 Look around, Jerusalem, towards the east, and see the happiness that comes to you from God.	36 O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.
37 For behold, your sons approach, whom you sent away scattered. They approach, gathering together, from the east all the way to the west, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the honor of God.	37 Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.