1 Baruch 1
1:1And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of NeraiYah, the son of MahseiYah, the son of ZedekiYah, the son of HasadiYah, the son of HilkiYah, wrote in Babylon,
1:2 In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Yerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
1:3 And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of JeconiYah the son of Joachim king of Yahuda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book,
1:4 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.
1:5 Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before YAHWEH.
1:6 They made also a collection of money according to every man's power:
1:7 And they sent it to Yerusalem unto Jehoiakim the high kohen, the son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, and to the kohenim, and to all the people which were found with him at Yerusalem,
1:8 At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of YAHWEH, that were carried out of the tabernacle, to return them into the land of Yahuda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which ZedekiYah the son of YoshiYah king of Yahuda had made,
1:9 After that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away YeconiYah, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Yerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon.
1:10 And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare you a grain offering, and offer upon the altar of YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY;
1:11 And pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and for the life of Belshazzar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven:
1:12 And YAHWEH will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Belshazzar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favor in their sight.
1:13 Pray for us also unto YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, for we have sinned against YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY; and unto this day the fury of YAHWEH and HIS wrath is not turned from us.
1:14 And you shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of YAHWEH, upon the feasts and solemn days.
1:15 And you shall say, To YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY belongs righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of Yahuda, and to the inhabitants of Yerusalem,
1:16 And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our kohenim, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:
1:17 For we have sinned before YAHWEH,
1:18 And disobeyed HIM, and have not hearkened unto the voice of YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, to walk in the commandments that HE gave us openly:
1:19 Since the day that YAHWEH brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, and we have been negligent in not hearing HIS voice.
1:20 Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which YAHWEH appointed by Mosheh HIS servant at the time that HE brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.
1:21 Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom HE sent unto us:
1:22 But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of YAHWEH our ALMIGHTY.