Bible
Display

Baruch 4

1This is the book of God’s commandments and the law that endures forever. All those who hold it fast will live, but those who leave it will 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, O Jacob, and take hold of it. Walk toward the shining of its light.
2Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
3Don’t give your glory to another, nor the things that are to your advantage to a foreign nation.
3Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
4O Israel, we are happy; for the 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.
5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
6You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries.
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 who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
7For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
8You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you.
8Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
9For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, “Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for 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 have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
10For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
11For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
11With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12Let no man rejoice over me, a widow and forsaken by many. For the sins of my children, I am left desolate, because they turned away from the law of God
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.
13and had no regard for his statutes. They didn’t walk in the ways of God’s commandments or tread in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
13They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
14Let those who dwell near Zion come and remember 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 afar, a shameless nation with a strange language, who didn’t respect old men or pity children.
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.
16They have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her who was alone desolate of her daughters.”
16These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
17But I—how can I help you?
17But what can I help you?
18For he who brought these calamities upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
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.
19Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.
20I have put off the garment of peace, and put on the sackcloth of my petition. I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.
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.
21Take courage, my children. Cry to God, 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 I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy has come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy that will soon come to you from your Everlasting Savior.
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 forever.
23For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.
24For as now those who dwell near Zion have seen your captivity, so they will shortly see your salvation from our God which will 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 has come upon you from God, for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you will see his destruction and will tread upon their necks.
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 traveled rough roads. They were taken away like a flock carried off by enemies.
26My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.
27Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by him who has brought this 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 decision to go astray from God, return and seek him ten times more.
28For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more.
29For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
29For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
30Take courage, O Jerusalem, for he who called you by name will comfort you.
30Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.
31Miserable are those who 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 who received your sons.
32Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.
33For as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad of your ruin, so she will be grieved at 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.
34And I will take away her pride in her great multitude and her boasting will be turned into mourning.
34For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.
35For fire will come upon her from the Everlasting for many days; and she will be inhabited by demons for a long time.
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 around 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 at 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.