Baruc · Revised Version (con apócrifos)
Baruc 4 Revised Version (con apócrifos)
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1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that hold it fast [are appointed ] to life; but such as leave it shall die.
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2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk towards her shining in the presence of the light thereof.
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3 Give not thy glory to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
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4 O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
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5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
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6 Ye were sold to the nations, [but ] not for destruction: because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto your adversaries.
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7 For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto demons, and not to God.
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8 Ye forgat the everlasting God, that brought you up; ye grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you.
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9 For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Hearken, ye [women ] that dwell about Sion: for God hath brought upon me great mourning;
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10 for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
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11 For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
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12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned aside from the law of God,
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13 and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
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14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
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15 For 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.
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16 And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters.
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17 But I, what can I help you?
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18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
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19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.
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20 I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry unto the Everlasting as long as I live.
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21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.
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22 For I have trusted 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 your Saviour.
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23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.
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24 For like as now they that dwell about 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.
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25 My 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 their necks.
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26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways; they were taken away as a flock carried off by the enemies.
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27 Be of good cheer, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that hath brought [these things ] upon you.
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28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: [so, ] return and seek him ten times more.
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29 For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
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30 Be of good cheer, O Jerusalem: for he that called thee by name will comfort thee.
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31 Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.
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32 Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.
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33 For as she rejoiced at thy fall, and was glad of thy ruin: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
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34 And I will take away her exultation in her great multitude, and her boasting shall be turned into mourning.
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35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.
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36 O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.
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37 Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
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