Baruch 1:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ Baruch read the words of this book to Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and to all the people who came to hear the book, ⁴ and to the nobles and the princes, and to the elders, and to all the people, small and great, all who lived in Babylon by the river Sud.

⁵ Then they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord;