Baruch 4

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.

¹This 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.

²Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that you may be illuminated.

²Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.

³Give not your honor to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation.

³Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.

⁴O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.

⁴O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto 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.

⁶Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.

⁷For you⌃ provoked him that made you by sacrificing to devils, and not to God.

⁷For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.

⁸You⌃ have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and you⌃ have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.

⁸Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye 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;

⁹For 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;

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.

¹⁴Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath 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.

¹⁵For 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.

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.

²⁰I 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.

²¹Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.

²¹Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto 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.

²²For 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.

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.

²⁴Like 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.

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.

²⁵My 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.

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.

²⁷Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye 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.

²⁹For he that hath 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.

³⁰Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.

³¹Miserable are they that afflicted you, and rejoiced at your fall.

³¹Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.

³²Miserable are the cities which your children served: miserable is she that received your sons.

³²Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.

³³For as she rejoiced at your ruin, and was glad of your fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

³³For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy 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.

³⁶O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee 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.

³⁷Lo, 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.

Septuagint (LXX2012)

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