1 Baruch 2
2:1Therefore YAHWEH has made tov HIS Word, which HE pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Yisrael, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Yisrael and Yahuda,
2:2 To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Yerusalem, according to the things that were written in the Torah of Mosheh;
2:3 That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.
2:4 Moreover HE has delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where YAHWEH has scattered them.
2:5 Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, and have not been obedient unto HIS Voice.
2:6 To YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY appertains righteousness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appears this day.
2:7 For all these plagues are come upon us, which YAHWEH has pronounced against us
2:8 Yet have we not prayed before YAHWEH, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.
2:9 Wherefore YAHWEH watched over us for evil, and YAHWEH has brought it upon us: for YAHWEH is righteous in all HIS works which HE has commanded us.
2:10 Yet we have not hearkened unto HIS voice, to walk in the commandments of YAHWEH, that HE has set before us.
2:11 And now, O YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY of Yisrael, that hast brought YOUR people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and have gotten YOURSELF a NAME, as appears this day:
2:12 O YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, we have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt unrighteously in all YOUR ordinances.
2:13 Let YOUR wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where YOU have scattered us.
2:14 Hear our prayers, O YAHWEH, and our petitions, and deliver us for YOUR own sake, and give us favor in the sight of them which have led us away:
2:15 That all the earth may know that YOU are YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, because Yisrael and HIS posterity is called by YOUR NAME.
2:16 O YAHWEH, look down from YOUR Kodesh house, and consider us: bow down YOUR ear, O YAHWEH, to hear us.
2:17 Open YOUR eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto YAHWEH neither praise nor righteousness:
2:18 But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give YOU praise and righteousness, O YAHWEH.
2:19 Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before YOU, O YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
2:20 For YOU have sent out YOUR wrath and indignation upon us, as YOU have spoken by YOUR servants the prophets, saying,
2:21 Thus saith YAHWEH, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall you remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers.
2:22 But if you will not hear the Voice of YAHWEH, to serve the king of Babylon,
2:23 I will cause to cease out of the cites of Yahudah, and from without Yerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants.
2:24 But we would not hearken unto YOUR voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have YOU made tov the Words that YOU spoke by YOUR servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place.
2:25 And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great miseries, by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.
2:26 And the House which is called by YOUR NAME have YOU laid waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the house of Yisrael and the house of Yahuda.
2:27 O YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, YOU have dealt with us after all YOUR tov, and according to all that great mercy of YOURS,
2:28 As YOU spoke by YOUR servant Mosheh in the day when YOU did command him to write the Torah before the children of Yisrael, saying,
2:29 If you 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.
2:30 For I knew that they would not hear ME, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
2:31 And shall know that I am YAHWEH their ALMIGHTY: for I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:
2:32 And they shall praise ME in the land of their captivity, and think upon MY NAME,
2:33 And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before YAHWEH.
2:34 And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Yitschaq, and Yacob, and they shall be stewards of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
2:35 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their ALMIGHTY, and they shall be MY people: and I will no more drive MY people out of Yisrael, the land that I have given them.