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Friday, September 24, 2010

Baruch - chapter 5 (this chapter is followed by "Letter of Jeremiah")

5: 1 - 9 (translated by Edgar Goodspeed)
Take off the clothes of your sorrow and your harsh treatment, Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory that is from God.  Put on the cloak of the uprightness that is from God, put on your head the headdress of the glory of the Everlasting.  For God will show your splendor to all that is under heaven.  For your name will forever be called by God The Peace of Uprightness and the Glory of Godliness.  Arise, Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look away to the east, and see your children gathered from the setting of the sun to its rising, at the command of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.  For they went forth from you being led away on foot by their enemies, but God will bring them in to you carried aloft in glory, like a royal throne.  For God has ordained that every high mountain and the everlasting hills shall be made low, and the valleys filled up to make level ground, so that Israel may go safely, to the glory of God.  And the woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel, at God's command, for God will lead Israel with joy, by the light of his glory, with the mercy and uprightness that come from him.

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