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Baruch 5
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1Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that comes from God for ever.
1Take off the garment of your mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.
2Cast about you a double garment of the righteousness which comes from God; and set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.
2Put on the robe of the righteousness from God. Set on your head a diadem of the glory of the Everlasting.
3For God will show your brightness to every country under heaven.
3For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.
4For your name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God's worship.
4For your name will be called by God forever “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”.
5Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold your children gathered from the west to the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God .
5Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height. Look around you toward the east and see your children gathered from the going down of the sun to its rising at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
6For they departed from you on foot, and were led away of their enemies: but God brings them to you exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom.
6For they went from you on foot, being led away by their enemies, but God brings them in to you carried on high with glory, on a royal throne.
7For God has appointed that every high hill, and banks of long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even the ground , that Israel may go safely in the glory of God,
7For God has appointed that every high mountain and the everlasting hills should be made low, and the valleys filled up to make the ground level, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.
8Moreover even the woods and every sweet smelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.
8Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have shaded Israel by the commandment of God.
9For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.
9For God will lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.