Baruch - chapter 2

2: 1 - 35 (translated by Edgar Goodspeed)
So the Lord made good His word which He uttered against us, and against our judges who judged Israel, and against our kings and against our officials and against the men of Israel and Judah.  Nowhere under heaven have such calamities occurred as He has brought upon Jerusalem, as it was written in the Law of Moses, so that one of us ate the flesh of his son, and another of us ate the flesh of his daughter.  The Lord has made us subject to all the kingdoms around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the people about us, where the Lord has scattered them.  They were brought low and not raised up, because we had sinned against the Lord our God, in not obeying His voice. 
Uprightness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face befits us and our forefathers, as it does this day.  All the calamities with which the Lord threatened us have overtaken us.  Yet, we have not besought the Lord by turning away, each of us, from the designs of his wicked heart.  And the Lord has watched for theses calamities and has brought them upon us, for the Lord is upright in all His doings which He has commanded us to imitate.  Yet we have not obeyed His voice and followed the Lord's commands, which He has set before us.
And now, Lord God of Israel, who brought Your people out of Egypt with a strong hand and with portents and wonders, and with great power and an uplifted arm, and made yourself such a name as Yours is today, we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have done wrong, Lord our God, in the face of all Your ordinances.  Let Your anger be turned away from us, for few of us are left, among the heathen, where You have scattered us.  Listen, Lord, to our prayer and our petition, and for Your sake deliver us, and grant us favor in the eyes of those who have led us into captivity, so that the whole earth may know that You are the Lord our God, for Israel and his descendants are called by Your name.  Lord, look down from Your holy dwelling, and think about us.  Turn Your ear to us, Lord, and hear us; open Your eyes and see; for the dead, who are in Hades, whose breath has been taken from their bodies, cannot ascribe glory and uprightness to the Lord, but the soul that grieves greatly, that goes about bent over and sick, with failing sight -- the soul that hungers will ascribe glory and uprightness to You, Lord.  For it is not for the upright acts of our forefathers and of our kings that we present our prayer for pity before, You, O Lord our God.  For You have inflicted Your anger and Your wrath upon us, just as You promised through Your servants the prophets to do, when You said, "Thus says the Lord: Bow your shoulders and work for the king of Babylon, and stay in the land which I gave to the king of Babylon, and stay in the land which I gave to your forefathers.  But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, and serve the king of Babylon, I will put an end to the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the voice of bridegroom and the voice of bride, in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem, and the whole country will become untrodden and uninhabited.
But we did not obey Your voice and serve the King of Babylon, and Your made good Your words that You had spoken throught Your servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our forefathers should be taken out of their places, and behold they are thrown out to the heat by day and to the frost by night; and they perished in great misery, by famine and the sword and expulsion.  And the house that was called by Your name You have made as it is today, because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judgah.  Yet You have dealt with us, O Lord our God, with all Your forbearance and all Your great compassion, as You promised through Your servant Moses to do, when You commanded him to write the Law before the sins of Israel, and said, "Unless you obey my voice, this great buzzing multitude will surely turn into a small number among the heathen where I will scatter them.  For I know that they will not listen to me, for they are a stiff-necked people.  But in the land to which they are carried away they will come to themselves, and they will know that I am the Lord their God.  I will give them minds and ears to listetn, and they will praise Me in the land to which they are carried away, and they will remember My name, and they will turn from their obstinacy and their wicked doings, for they will remember what befell their forefathers, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and they will possess it; and I will multiply them and they will not be despised.  And I will make an everlasting agreement with them that I shall be their God and they shall be My people.  And I will never again remove My people Israel from the land which I have given them."