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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.]