Baruch, 5

1. Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore,

1. Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever.

2. wrap the cloak of God's saving justice around you, put the diadem of the Eternal One's glory on your head,

2. Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting.

3. for God means to show your splendour to every nation under heaven,

3. For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven.

4. and the name God gives you for evermore will be, 'Peace-through-Justice, and Glory-through-Devotion'.

4. For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God's worship.

5. Arise, Jerusalem, stand on the heights and turn your eyes to the east: see your children reassembled from west and east at the Holy One's command, rejoicing because God has remembered.

5. Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God.

6. Though they left you on foot driven by enemies, now God brings them back to you, carried gloriously, like a royal throne.

6. For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of their enemies: but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom.

7. 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.

7. For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God,

8. And the forests and every fragrant tree will provide shade for Israel, at God's command;

8. Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.

9. for God will guide Israel in joy by the light of his glory, with the mercy and saving justice which come from him. A copy of the letter which Jeremiah sent to those about to be led captive to Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to tell them what he had been commanded by God:

9. For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.