1 And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,
2 In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
3 And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book,
4 And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king’s sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud.
5 Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.
6 They made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:
7 And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest, the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,
8 At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of Juda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,
9 After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon.
10 And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;
11 And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven:
12 And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.
13 Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us.
14 And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days.
15 And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
16 And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:
17 For we have sinned before the Lord,
18 And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:
19 Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice.
20 Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.
21 Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us:
22 But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.
1 Et haec verba libri quae scripsit Baruch filius Neeri
filius Maasei
filii Sedechiae filii Sedei filii Helchiae in Babylonia
2 in anno quinto in septima die mensis
in tempore quo ceperunt Chaldei Hierusalem
et succenderunt eam igni
3 et legit Baruch verba libri huius
ad aures Iechoniae filii Ioachim regis Iuda
et ad aures universi populi venientis ad librum
4 et ad aures potentium filiorum regum
et ad aures presbyterorum
et ad aures populi a minimo usque ad magnum eorum
omnium habitantium in Babylonia ad flumen Sudi
5 qui audientes plorabant et ieiunabant
et orabant in conspectu Domini
6 et collegerunt pecuniam
secundum quod potuit uniuscuiusque manus
7 et miserunt in Hierusalem
ad Ioachim filium Helchiae filii Salom sacerdotem
et ad sacerdotes et ad omnem populum
qui inventi sunt cum eo in Hierusalem
8 cum acciperet vasa templi Domini quae ablata fuerant de templo
revocare in terram Iuda decima die illius sivan
vasa argentea quae fecit Sedechias filius Iosiae rex Iuda
9 posteaquam cepisset Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonum
Iechoniam
et principes et vinctos et potentes
et populum terrae ab Hierusalem
et duxit eos in Babyloniam
10 et dixerunt ecce misimus ad vos pecunias
de quibus emite holocaustomata et tus
et facite manna et offerte pro peccato ad aram Domini Dei nostri
11 et orate pro vita Nabuchodonosor regis Babyloniae
et pro vita Balthasar filii eius
ut sint dies ipsorum sicut dies caeli super terram
12 et det Dominus virtutem nobis et inluminet oculos nostros
ut vivamus sub umbra Nabuchodonosor regis Babyloniae
et sub umbra Balthasar filii eius
et serviamus eis multis diebus
et inveniamus gratiam in conspectu eorum
13 et pro nobis ipsis orate ad Dominum Deum nostrum
quia peccavimus Domino Deo nostro
et non est aversus furor eius a nobis usque in hunc diem
14 et legite librum istum quem misimus ad vos
recitari in templo Domini in die sollemni et in die oportuno
15 et dicetis
Domino Deo nostro iustitia nobis autem confusio faciei nostrae
sicut dies haec omni Iuda et habitantibus in Hierusalem
16 regibus nostris et principibus nostris
sacerdotibus nostris et prophetis nostris et patribus nostris
17 peccavimus ante Dominum nostrum
et non credidimus diffidentes in eum
18 et non fuimus subiectibiles illi
et non obaudivimus vocem Domini Dei nostri
ut ambularemus in mandatis eius quibus dedit nobis
19 a die qua eduxit patres nostros de terra Aegypti
usque in hunc diem
eramus incredibiles ad Dominum Deum nostrum
et dissipati recessimus ne audiremus vocem ipsius
20 et adheserunt nobis mala multa et maledictiones
quae constituit Dominus Moysi servo suo
qui eduxit patres nostros de terra Aegypti
dare nobis terram fluentem lac et mel sicut hodierna die
21 et non audivimus vocem Domini Dei nostri
secundum omnia verba prophetarum quos misit ad nos
22 et abivimus unusquisque in sensum cordis nostri maligni
operari diis alienis facientes mala ante oculos Domini Dei nostri