Baruch · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Baruch 3 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Baruch is not in RV1909.
1 And now, O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, the soul in anguish, and the troubled spirit crieth to thee:
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2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for thou art a merciful God, and have pity on us: for we have sinned before thee.
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3 For thou remainest for ever, and shall we perish everlastingly?
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4 O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before thee, and have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, wherefore evils have cleaved fast to us.
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5 Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but think upon thy hand, and upon thy name at this time:
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6 For thou art the Lord our God, and we will praise thee, O Lord:
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7 Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned before thee.
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8 And behold we are at this day in our captivity, whereby thou hast scattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord our God.
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9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear, that thou mayst learn wisdom.
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10 How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thy enemies’ land?
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11 Thou art grown old in a strange country, thou art defiled with the dead: thou art counted with them that go down into hell.
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12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom:
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13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou hadst surely dwelt in peace for ever.
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14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding: that thou mayst know also where is length of days and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
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15 Who hath found out her place? and who hath gone in to her treasures?
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16 Where are the princes of the nations, and they that rule over the beasts that are upon the earth?
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17 That take their diversion with the birds of the air.
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18 That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no end of their getting? who work in silver and are solicitous, and their works are unsearchable.
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19 They are cut off, and are gone down to hell, and others are risen up in their place.
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20 Young men have seen the light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge they have not known,
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21 Nor have they understood the paths thereof, neither have their children received it, it is far from their face.
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22 It hath not been heard of in the land of Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.
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23 The children of Agar also, that search after the wisdom that is of the earth, the merchants of Merrha, and of Theman, and the tellers of fables, and searchers of prudence and understanding: but the way of wisdom they have not known, neither have they remembered her paths.
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24 O Israel, how great is the house of God, and how vast is the place of his possession!
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25 It is great, and hath no end: it is high and immense.
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26 There were the giants, those renowned men that were from the beginning, of great stature, expert in war.
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27 The Lord chose not them, neither did they find the way of knowledge: therefore did they perish.
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28 And because they had not wisdom, they perished through their folly.
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29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?
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30 Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and brought her preferably to chosen gold?
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31 There is none that is able to know her ways, nor that can search out her paths:
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32 But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore, and filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts:
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33 He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth: and hath called it, and it obeyeth him with trembling.
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34 And the stars have given light in their watches, and rejoiced:
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35 They were called, and they said: Here we are: and with cheerfu Iness they have shined forth to him that made them.
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36 This is our God, and there shall no other be accounted of in comparison of him.
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37 He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.
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38 Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men.
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave He the way of knowledge unto them; but they were destroyed because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness."
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… beyond expectation, that because of these things the very angels formed a choir, and in behalf of the world offered up their praise for them, and the prophets from the first were amazed at this, that "He was seen upon earth, and conversed with men." Yea, for it is far beyond all thought to hear that God the Unspeakable, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Afterwards He was seen on earth, and conversed among men.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Why, in this:--This is your God; no other shall be accounted of in comparison with Him, and a little further on, after this did He shew Himself upon earth, and conversed with men. This addition proves clearly that the words are not used of the Father, but of the Son; for it was He Who in bodily form companied with …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Standing and sitting, I apprehend, indicate the fixity and entire stability of the nature, as Baruch, when he wishes to exhibit the immutability and immobility of the Divine mode of existence, says, "For thou sittest for ever and we perish utterly." Moreover, the place on the right hand indicates in my judgment equality of honour.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)