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D. Baruch Addresses Jerusalem

30 Take courage, Jerusalem!
    The one who gave you your name will console you.(A)
31 Wretched shall be those who harmed you,
    who rejoiced at your downfall;
32 Wretched shall be the cities where your children were enslaved,
    wretched the city that received your children.(B)
33 As that city rejoiced at your collapse,(C)
    and made merry at your downfall,
    so shall she grieve over her own desolation.
34 I will take from her the rejoicing crowds,
    and her exultation shall be turned to mourning:
35 For fire shall come upon her(D)
    from the Eternal One, for many a day,
    to be inhabited by demons for a long time.[a]
36 Look to the east, Jerusalem;
    see the joy that comes to you from God!(E)
37 Here come your children whom you sent away,
    gathered in from east to west
By the word of the Holy One,
    rejoicing in the glory of God.

Chapter 5

Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery;
    put on forever the splendor of glory from God:(F)
Wrapped in the mantle of justice from God,
    place on your head the diadem
    of the glory of the Eternal One.(G)
For God will show your splendor to all under the heavens;
    you will be named by God forever:
    the peace of justice, the glory of God’s worship.(H)

Rise up, Jerusalem! stand upon the heights;
    look to the east and see your children
Gathered from east to west
    at the word of the Holy One,
    rejoicing that they are remembered by God.
Led away on foot by their enemies they left you:
    but God will bring them back to you
    carried high in glory as on royal thrones.(I)
For God has commanded
    that every lofty mountain
    and the age-old hills be made low,
That the valleys be filled to make level ground,
    that Israel may advance securely in the glory of God.(J)
The forests and every kind of fragrant tree
    have overshadowed Israel at God’s command;(K)
For God is leading Israel in joy
    by the light of his glory,
    with the mercy and justice that are his.

Footnotes

  1. 4:35 Deserts and desolate places were looked upon as the habitation of demons; cf. Tb 8:3; Lk 11:24.