2 BARUCH 6
6:1 Now it happened on the following day that, behold, an army of the Chaldeans surrounded the city. And in the evening I, Baruch, left the people, went outside, and set myself by an oak.
6:2 And I was grieving over Zion and sighed because of the captivity which had come upon the people.
6:3 And behold, suddenly a strong ruach lifted me and carried me above the wall of Yerusalem.
6:4 And I saw, and behold, there were standing four malakim at the four comers of the city, each of them with a burning torch in his hands.
6:5 And another malak came down from heaven and said to them, "Hold your torches and do not light them before I say it to you.
6:6 Because I was sent first to speak a Word to the earth and then to deposit in it what YAHWEH, the Most High, has commanded me."
6:7 And I saw that he descended in the Kodesh of HaKodesh and that he took from there the veil, the kodesh ephod, the mercy seat, the two tables, the kodesh raiment of the kohenim, the altar of incense, the forty-eight precious stones with which the kohenim were clothed, and all the kodesh vessels of the tabernacle.
6:8 And he said to the earth with a loud voice: Earth, earth, earth, hear the Word of the ALMIGHTY YAHWEH, and receive the things which I commit to you, and guard them until the last times, so that you may restore them when you are ordered, so that strangers may not get possession of them.
6:9 For the time has arrived when Yerusalem will also be delivered up for a time, until the moment that it will be said that it will be restored forever.
6:10 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up.