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Baruch 4

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1She is the scroll containing God’s commandments,
the Law that exists forever.
All who hold on to her will live,
but those who desert her will die.
2Jacob, turn and grab on to her.
Travel toward the rays
coming from her light.
3Don’t give your honor to another
or your advantages to a foreign nation.
4Israel, we are blessed
because we know
what is pleasing to God.
Poem of encouragement
5Be confident, my people,
you who are the legacy of Israel!
6You weren’t sold to the nations
for complete destruction,
but you were handed over
to your opponents
because you made God angry.
7You upset your creator
when you sacrificed to demons
and not to God.
8You forgot the eternal God
who raised you;
and you caused pain to Jerusalem,
who nurtured you.
9Jerusalem saw the wrath of God
that came on you and said:
Neighbors of Zion, listen!
God has brought me great grief.
10I have watched my sons and daughters taken captive,
the action of the eternal one.
11I nursed them joyfully,
but I sent them away
with tears and mourning.
12Don’t any of you rejoice over me,
a widow deserted by many.
My children avoided God’s Law,
so I was stripped bare
because of their sins.
13They didn’t acknowledge
God’s requirements,
walk in the ways of
God’s commandments,
or follow the paths in which
his righteousness trained them.
14Neighbors of Zion, come!
Remember the exile
my sons and daughters suffered,
brought on them by the eternal one.
15God brought a nation
from far away against them,
a nation that is shameless
and speaks a strange language,
that showed no respect for the elderly or pity for the child.
16It#4.16 Or they took away the widow’s
dearly loved sons
and deprived the lonely woman
of her daughters.
17But how am I able to help you?
18The one who brought
the horrible things on you
will rescue you
from your enemies’ grasp.
19Go, children, go,
for I have been left desolate.
20I’ve stripped off the robe of peace and put on the rough cloth of mourners.
I’ll spend my days crying out
to the eternal one.
21Children, be confident! Cry out to God!
God will rescue you from your enemies’ authority and grip.
22I have placed hope in the eternal one
for your salvation;
the holy one has sent me joy,
because your eternal savior
will soon have mercy on you.
23I sent you away
with mourning and wailing,
but God will restore you to me
with gladness and joy forever.
24Just as Zion’s neighbors
have now seen your exile,
they’ll also soon see
God’s deliverance of you;
it will come to you with all the glory and splendor of the eternal one.
25Children, bear up patiently
under God’s anger,
which has come on you.
Your enemy has hunted you down,
but you’ll soon see their destruction.
Then you’ll step on their throats.
26My delicate children
have traveled rough roads.
They were taken as a flock
snatched away by enemies.
27Children, be confident!
Cry out to God,
for the one who brought this on you will remember you.
28Just as you plotted
to stray away from God,
return with ten times as much effort
to seek him out.
29The one who brought
these horrible things on you
will bring you eternal joy
along with your deliverance.
Comfort for Jerusalem
30Jerusalem, be confident!
The one who named you will comfort you.
31Misery will fall upon those
who mistreated you
and celebrated your fall.
32Misery will fall upon the cities
that enslaved your young.
Misery will fall upon the cities#4.32 Or the city
that received your children.
33Just as the enemy#4.33 Or he celebrated your fall
and rejoiced at your misfortune,
she herself will feel the pain
of being left desolate.
34I’ll strip away the pride
she has in her great population,
and turn her arrogance into grief.
35The eternal one will send fire on her
for many days,
and demons will inhabit her
for a long time.
36Jerusalem, look to the east
and see the joy that is coming
to you from God.
37The children you sent away are coming.
By the holy one’s word,
they are coming from the east
and the west,
rejoicing in God’s glory.

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