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- Chapter 2}
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- Title: Apocrypha, The
- Book: Baruch, With The Epistle Of Jeremiah
- Author: Various
- Date: 1611
-
- Chapter 2
-
- And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousness, but
- unto us confusion of face, as at this day, unto the men of Judah, and to the
- inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our
- priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers: for that we have sinned
- before the Lord, and disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of
- the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he hath set
- before us: since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of
- Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God,
- and we have dealt unadvisedly in not hearkening unto his voice. Wherefore
- the plagues clave unto us, and the curse, which the Lord commanded Moses his
- servant to pronounce in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land
- of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, as at this day.
- Nevertheless we hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord our God, according
- unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us: but we walked every
- man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to
- do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God. Therefore the Lord
- hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our
- judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes,
- and against the men of Israel and Judah, to bring upon us great plagues, such
- as never happened under the whole heaven, ^3 as it came to pass in Jerusalem,
- according to the things that are written in the law of Moses; that we should
- eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own
- daughter. Moreover he hath given them to be in subjection to all the
- kingdoms that are round about us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all
- the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them. Thus were they
- cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in
- not hearkening unto his voice. To the Lord our God belongeth righteousness:
- but unto us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. For all
- these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath pronounced against us.
- Yet have we not intreated the favour of the Lord, in turning every one from
- the thoughts of his wicked heart. Therefore hath the Lord kept watch over
- the plagues, and the Lord hath brought them upon us; for the Lord is
- righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us. Yet we have not
- hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he
- hath set before us.
-
- [Footnote 3: Another reading is, even as he hath done.]
-
- And now, O Lord, thou God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of
- the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and
- with great power, and with a high arm, and hast gotten thyself a name, as at
- this day: O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt
- unrighteously in all thine ordinances. Let thy wrath turn from us: for we
- are but a few left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered us. Hear our
- prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for thine own sake, and give
- us favour in the sight of them which have led us away captive: that all the
- earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his
- posterity is called by thy name. O Lord, look down from thine holy house,
- and consider us: incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear: open thine eyes, and
- behold: for the dead that are in ^1 the grave, whose breath is taken from
- their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither glory nor righteousness: but
- the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes
- that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee glory and righteousness, O
- Lord. For we do not present our supplication before thee, O Lord our God,
- for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings. For thou hast sent
- thy wrath and thine indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by thy servants
- the prophets, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Bow your shoulders to serve the
- king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers. But
- if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon, I
- will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem,
- the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
- and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without
- inhabitant. But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of
- Babylon: therefore hast thou made good thy words that thou spakest by thy
- servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of
- our fathers, should be taken out of their places. And, lo, they are cast out
- to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great
- miseries by famine, by sword, and by ^2 pestilence. And the house which is
- called by thy name hast thou laid waste, as at this day, for the wickedness
- of the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Yet, O Lord our God, thou
- hast dealt with us after all thy kindness, and according to all that great
- mercy of thine, as thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou
- didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel, saying, If
- ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned
- into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them. For I know
- that they will not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the
- land of their captivity they shall lay it to heart, and shall know that I am
- the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear: and they
- shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name, and
- shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they
- shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord. And
- I will bring them again into the land which I sware unto their fathers, to
- Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will
- increase them, and they shall not be diminished. And I will make an
- everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people:
- and I will no more remove my people of Israel out of the land that I have
- given them.
-
- [Footnote 1: Gr. Hades.]
-
- [Footnote 2: See Jer. xxxii. 36.]
-
-