Baruch, 5

1. Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery; put on the splendor of glory from God forever:

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

2. Wrapped in the cloak of justice from God, bear on your head the mitre that displays the glory of the eternal name.

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

3. For God will show all the earth your splendor:

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

4. you will be named by God forever the peace of justice, the glory of God's worship.

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

5. Up, Jerusalem! stand upon the heights; look to the east and see your children Gathered from the east and the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that they are remembered by God.

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.

6. Led away on foot by their enemies they left you: but God will bring them back to you borne aloft in glory as on royal thrones.

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

7. For God has commanded that every lofty mountain be made low, And that the age-old depths and gorges be filled to level ground, that Israel may advance secure in the glory of God.

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.

8. The forests and every fragrant kind of tree have overshadowed Israel at God's command;

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

9. For God is leading Israel in joy by the light of his glory, with his mercy and justice for company.

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: