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Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore, (Baruch 5, 1)
for God means to show your splendour to every nation under heaven, (Baruch 5, 3)
and the name God gives you for evermore will be, 'Peace-through-Justice, and Glory-through-Devotion'. (Baruch 5, 4)
For God has decreed the flattening of each high mountain, of the everlasting hills, the filling of the valleys to make the ground level so that Israel can walk safely in God's glory. (Baruch 5, 7)
And the forests and every fragrant tree will provide shade for Israel, at God's command; (Baruch 5, 8)
Once you have reached Babylon you will stay there for many years, as long as seven generations; after which I shall bring you home in peace. (Baruch 6, 2)
And sometimes, the priests filch gold and silver from their gods to spend on themselves, even giving some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. (Baruch 6, 9)
another holds sword and mace in his right hand, yet is powerless to defend himself against war or thieves. (Baruch 6, 13)
Bats, swallows, birds of every kind perch on their bodies and heads, and so do cats. (Baruch 6, 21)
'The gold with which they are parading their futility before the world is supposed to make them look beautiful, but if someone does not rub off the tarnish, these gods will not be shining much on their own, and even while they were being cast, they felt nothing. (Baruch 6, 23)
However much was paid for them, there is still no breath of life in them. (Baruch 6, 24)
Whatever is sacrificed to them, the priests re-sell and pocket the profit; while their wives salt down part of it, but give nothing to the poor or to the helpless. As to the sacrifices themselves, why, women during their periods and women in childbed are not afraid to touch them! (Baruch 6, 27)
