English Bible
Baruch 4
Big screen- 1This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
- 2Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that you may be illuminated.
- 3Give not your honor to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation.
- 4O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.
- 5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
- 6You° were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because you° moved God to wrath, you° were delivered to the enemies.
- 7For you° provoked him that made you by sacrificing to devils, and not to God.
- 8You° have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and you° have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
- 9For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Listen, O you° that dwell about Sion: God has brought upon me great mourning;
- 10For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
- 11With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
- 12Let 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.
- 13They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
- 14Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember you° the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
- 15For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
- 16These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
- 17But what can I help you?
- 18For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.
- 19Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.
- 20I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry to the Everlasting in my days.
- 21Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.
- 22For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you from the Everlasting our Saviour.
- 23For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.
- 24Like as now the neighbors 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.
- 25My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you shall see his destruction, and shall tread upon his neck.
- 26My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.
- 27Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry to God: for you° shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.
- 28For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more.
- 29For he that has brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
- 30Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave you that name will comfort you.
- 31Miserable are they that afflicted you, and rejoiced at your fall.
- 32Miserable are the cities which your children served: miserable is she that received your sons.
- 33For as she rejoiced at your ruin, and was glad of your fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
- 34For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.
- 35For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.
- 36O Jerusalem, look about you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God.
- 37Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.