2 BARUCH 3
3:1 And I said:
3:2 O YAHWEH, Sovereign Master, have I therefore come into the world to see the evil things of my mother?
3:3 No, Sovereign Master. If I have found free unmerited favor and pardon in YOUR eyes, take away my ruach first that I may go to my fathers and I may not see the destruction of my mother.
3:4 For from two sides I am hard pressed: I cannot resist YOU, but my soul also cannot behold the evil of my mother. But one thing I shall say in YOUR presence, O YAHWEH: Now, what will happen after these things?
3:5 For if YOU destroy YOUR city and deliver up YOUR country to those who hate us, how will the name of Yisrael be remembered again?
3:6 Or how shall we speak again about YOUR splendid deeds? Or to whom again will that which is in YOUR Torah be explained?
3:7 Or will the universe return to its nature and the world go back to its original silence?
3:8 And will the multitude of the souls be taken away and will not the nature of man be mentioned again?
3:9 And where is all that which YOU said to Mosheh about us?