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 Sedei, the son of Helcias, wrote in Babylonia.
2 In the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time that the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
3 And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hearing of all the people that came to hear the book.
4 And in the hearing of the nobles, the sons of the kings, and in the hearing of the ancients, and in the hearing of the people, from the least even to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by the river Sedi.
5 And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord.
6 And they made a collection of money, according to every man's power.
7 And they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the priest, the son of Helcias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people, that were found with him in Jerusalem:
8 At the time when he received the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which had been taken away out of the temple, to return them into the land of Juda the tenth day of the month Sivan, the silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,
9 After that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and all the powerful men, and the people of the land from Jerusalem, and brought them bound to Babylon.
10 And they said: Behold we have sent you money, buy with it holocausts, and frankincense, and make meat offerings, and offerings for sin at the altar of the Lord our God:
11 And pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor the 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 that the Lord may give us strength, and enlighten our eyes, that we may live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and may serve them many days, and may find favour in their sight.
13 And pray ye for us to the Lord our God: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned away from us even to this day.
14 And read ye this book, which we have sent to you to be read in the temple of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days.
15 And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth justice, but to us confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to all Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
16 To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers.
17 We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not believed him, nor put our trust in him:
18 And we were not obedient to him, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments, which he hath given us.
19 From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going astray we turned away from hearing his voice.
20 And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.
21 And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us:
22 And we have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.
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Baruc 1 is a chapter of the Old Testament that presents a prayer of confession of the Jewish people after the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They recognize that disaster was a consequence of disobedience to God and ask for forgiveness for their sins. Below are five verses from other Bible books that relate to the topics covered in Baruc 1:
2 Chronicles 36:15-16: "And the Lord God of his parents sent them persistent warning through his messengers, because he had compassion for his people and their dwelling. But they mocked the messengers of God, His words and moiled for his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord lit against his people, and there was no more remedy. " This verse shows how God warned the people of Jerusalem through the prophets, but they did not hear and therefore suffered the consequences.
Lamentations 1:8: "Jerusalem has committed severe sin; so she became the object of mocking; all who honored her now despise her, because they saw her nudity; she, in turn, moans and turns with her back ". This verse shows how Jerusalem suffered humiliation because of his disobedience to God.
Psalm 106:6-7: "We sin, like our parents, committed iniquities and evil. Our parents in Egypt did not pay attention to your wonders; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies; on the contrary, they rebelled next to Sea, the Red Sea ". This verse recognizes that God's people repeated the sins of their ancestors and did not value God's mercies.
Ezekiel 20:13: "But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness, they did not follow me and rejected my laws. Those who observe them will live for them; but those who despise them will die because of them." This verse shows how disobedience to God's laws resulted in death and destruction for the people.
Isaiah 64:10-11: "Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion became a desert, Jerusalem is desolate. Our holy and glorious house, where our parents praised you, was consumed by fire; all that was precious to us became ruins. " This verse highlights the sadness and desolation that the people felt when Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed.
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