Baruch, 5

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

1. Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God.

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

2. Put on the robe of the righteousness from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting.

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

3. For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.

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

4. For your name will for ever be called by God, "Peace of righteousness and glory of godliness."

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, stand upon the height and look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.

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 went forth from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but God will bring them back to you, carried in glory, as on a royal throne.

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 has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.

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

8. The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God's command.

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 will lead Israel with joy, in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.