Baruch 1:3-5

Common English Bible

³ Baruch read the words of this scroll aloud to Judah’s King Jeconiah, Jehoiakim’s son, and to all the people who came to hear the reading of the scroll, ⁴ and to the powerful ones, the rulers’ sons, the elders, and all the people, from the least important to the greatest, and to all the ones who lived in Babylon by the Sud River. ⁵ They wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.