Baruch 4

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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.	1 She is the book of God's commandments, the Law that stands for ever; those who keep her shal live,those who desert her shal die.
2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.	2 Turn back, Jacob, seize her, in her radiance make your way to light:
3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.	3 do not yield your glory to another, your privilege to a people not your own.
4 O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.	4 Israel, blessed are we: what pleases God has been revealed to us!
5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.	5 Take courage, my people, memorial of Israel!
6 Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.	6 You were sold to the nations, but not for extermination. You provoked God; and so were delivered toyour enemies,
7 For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.	7 since you had angered your Creator by offering sacrifices to demons, and not to God.
8 Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.	8 You had forgotten the eternal God who reared you. You had also grieved Jerusalem who nursed you,
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;	9 for when she saw God's anger fal ing on you, she said: Listen, you neighbours of Zion: God has sent megreat sorrow.
10 For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.	10 I have seen my sons and daughters taken into captivity, which the Eternal brought down on them.
11 With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.	11 I had reared them joyful y; in tears, in sorrow, I watched them go away.
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.	12 Do not, any of you, exult over me, a widow, deserted by so many; I am bereaved because of the sinsof my children, who turned away from the Law of God,
13 They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.	13 who did not want to know his precepts and would not fol ow the ways of his commandments or treadthe paths of discipline as his justice directed.
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.	14 Come here, neighbours of Zion! Remember my sons' and daughters' captivity, which the Eternalbrought down on them.
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.	15 How he brought a distant nation down on them, a ruthless nation speaking a foreign language, theyshowed neither respect for the aged, nor pity for the child;
16 These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.	16 they carried off the widow's cherished sons, they left her quite alone, bereft of her daughters.
17 But what can I help you?	17 For my part, how could I help you?
18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.	18 He who brought those disasters down on you, is the one to deliver you from your enemies' clutches.
19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.	19 Go, my children, go your way! I must stay bereft and lonely;
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.	20 I have taken off the clothes of peace and put on the sackcloth of entreaty; al my life I shal cry to theEternal.
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.	21 Take courage, my children, cal on God: he wil deliver you from tyranny, from the clutches of yourenemies;
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.	22 for I look to the Eternal for your rescue, and joy has come to me from the Holy One at the mercy soonto reach you from your Saviour, the Eternal.
23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.	23 In sorrow and tears I watched you go away, but God wil give you back to me in joy and gladness forever.
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.	24 As the neighbours of Zion have now witnessed your captivity, so wil they soon see your rescue byGod, which wil come upon you with great glory and splendour of the Eternal.
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.	25 My children, patiently bear the anger brought on you by God. Your enemy has persecuted you, butsoon you wil witness his destruction and set your foot on his neck.
26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.	26 My favourite children have travel ed by rough roads, carried off like a flock by a marauding enemy.
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.	27 Take courage, my children, cal on God: he who brought this on you wil remember you.
28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more.	28 As by your wil you first strayed from God, so now turn back and search for him ten times harder;
29 For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.	29 for as he has been bringing down those disasters on you, so wil he rescue you and give you eternaljoy.
30 Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.	30 Take courage, Jerusalem: he who gave you your name wil console you.
31 Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.	31 Disaster wil come to al who have il -treated you and gloated over your fal .
32 Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.	32 Disaster wil come to the cities where your children were slaves; disaster to whichever one receivedyour children,
33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.	33 for just as she rejoiced at your fal and was happy to see you ruined, so wil she grieve over her owndesolation.
34 For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.	34 I shall deprive her of the joy of a populous city, and her insolence wil turn to mourning;
35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.	35 fire from the Eternal wil befall her for many a day, and demons wil dwel in her for ages.
36 O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.	36 Jerusalem, turn your eyes to the east, see the joy that is coming to you from 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.	37 Look, the children you watched go away are on their way home; reassembled from east and west, theyare on their way home at the Holy One's command, rejoicing in God's glory.