1 These are the words of the book which Baruch the son of Neraiah, son of Mahseiah, son of Zedekiah, son of Hasadiah, son of Hilkiah, wrote in Babylon,
2 in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.
3 And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people who came to hear the book,
4 and in the hearing of the mighty men and the princes, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, small and great, all who dwelt in Babylon by the river Sud.
5 Then they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord;
6 and they collected money, each giving what he could;
7 and they sent it to Jerusalem to Jehoiakim the high priest, the son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, and to the priests, and to all the people who were present with him in Jerusalem.
8 At the same time, on the tenth day of Sivan, Baruch took the vessels of the house of the Lord, which had been carried away from the temple, to return them to the land of Judah -- the silver vessels which Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, had made,
9 after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem Jeconiah and the princes and the prisoners and the mighty men and the people of the land, and brought them to Babylon.
10 And they said: "Herewith we send you money; so buy with the money burnt offerings and sin offerings and incense, and prepare a cereal offering, and offer them upon the altar of the Lord our God;
11 and pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and for the life of Belshazzar his son, that their days on earth may be like the days of heaven.
12 And the Lord will give us strength, and he will give light to our eyes, and we shall live under the protection of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and under the protection of Belshazzar his son, and we shall serve them many days and find favor in their sight.
13 And pray for us to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and to this day the anger of the Lord and his wrath have not turned away from us.
14 And you shall read this book which we are sending you, to make your confession in the house of the Lord on the days of the feasts and at appointed seasons.
15 "And you shall say: `Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face, as at this day, to us, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
16 and to our kings and our princes and our priests and our prophets and our fathers,
17 because we have sinned before the Lord,
18 and have disobeyed him, and have not heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the statutes of the Lord which he set before us.
19 From the day when the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been negligent, in not heeding his voice.
20 So to this day there have clung to us the calamities and the curse which the Lord declared through Moses his servant at the time when he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.
21 We did not heed the voice of the Lord our God in all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us, but we each followed the intent of his own wicked heart by serving other gods and doing what is 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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