The Book of Baruch
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4:27 Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.
4:28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more.
4:29 For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
4:30 Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.
4:31 Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.
4:32 Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.
4:33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
4:34 For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.
4:35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.
4:36 O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.
4:37 Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
5:1 Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever.
5:2 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.
5:3 For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven.
5:4 For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God’s worship.
5:5 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.
5:6 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.
5:7 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,
5:8 Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.
5:9 For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.