Baruch 1
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1And these are the wordes of the boke, which Baruch the sonne of Nerias, the sonne of Maasias, the sonne of Sedecias, the sonne of Asadias, the sonne of Helcias wrote in at Babylon, 2In the fift yere, and in the seuenth day of the moneth, what time as the Chaldeans toke Ierusalem, and burnt it with fyre. 3And Baruch did read the wordes of this boke, that Iechonias the sonne of Ioacim King of Iuda might heare, & all the people that were come to heare the boke, 4And in the audience of the gouernour, & of the Kings sonnes, & before the Elders, & before the whole people, from the lowest vnto the hiest, before all them that dwelt at Babylon by the riuer Sud. 5Which when they heard it, wept, fasted and made praiers before the Lord. 6They made a collection also of money, according to euerie mans power, 7And sent it to Ierusalem vnto Ioacim the sonne of Helcias the sonne of Salom Priest, and vnto the other Priests, and to all the people, which were with him at Ierusalem, 8When he had receiued the vessels of the Temple of the Lord, that were taken away out of the Temple, to bring them againe into the land of Iuda, the tenth day of the moneth Siuan, to wit, siluer vessels, which Sedecias the sonne of Iosias King of Iuda had made, 9After that Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon had led away Iechonias from Ierusalem, and his princes, & his nobles, prisoners, and the people, and caryed them to Babylon. 10And they said, Beholde, we haue sent you money, wherwith ye shal bye burnt offrings for sinne, and incense, and prepare a meat offring, & offre vpon the altar of the Lord our God, 11And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his sonne, that their daies may be vpon earth, as the daies of heauen, 12And that God wolde giue vs strength & lighten our eyes, that we may liue vnder the shadowe of Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, and vnder the shadowe of Baltasar his sonne, that we may long do them seruice, and finde fauour in their sight. 13Pray for vs also vnto the Lord our God (for we haue sinned against the Lord our God, and vnto this day the furie of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from vs) 14And rede this boke (which we haue sent to you to be rehearsed in the Temple of the Lord) vpon the feast daies, and at time conuenient. 15Thus shal ye say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousnes, but vnto vs the confusion of our faces, as it is come to passe this day vnto them of Iuda, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, 16And to our Kings, and to our princes, & to our Priests, and to our Prophetes, and to our fathers, 17Because we haue sinned before the Lord our God, 18And haue not obeied him, nether hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lord our God, to walke in the commandements that he gaue vs openly. 20Wherefore these plagues are come vpon vs, and the curse which the Lord appointed by Moyses his seruant at the time that he broght our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to giue vs a land that floweth with milke and honie, as appeareth this day. 21Neuertheles, we haue not hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lord our God, according to all the wordes of the Prophetes, whome he sent vnto vs. 22But euerie one of vs followed the wicked imaginacion of his owne heart, to serue strange gods, and to do euil in the sight of the Lord our God.