Baruch - deuterocanonical book (Greek language)

1: 1-22 (translated by Edgar Goodspeed)
"These are the words of the book that Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, the son of Zedekiah, the son of Hasadiah, the son of Hilkiah, wrote in Babylon, in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.  And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, in the hearing of all the people who came to hear the book read, and in the hearing of the nobles, and the princes, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, small and great -- in fact, of all who lived in Babylon, by the River Sud.  Then they wept, and each one giving what he could, and they sent it to Jerusalem, to Jehoiakim the high priest, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Shallum, and to the priests, and to all the people that were found with him in Jerusalem, when he took the plate of the house of the Lord that had been carried away from the temple, to return it to the land of Judah -- the silver dishes which Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, had made, after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried off Jeconiah and the officers and captives and nobles and the common people from Jerusalem, and taken him to Babylon.  And they said, "Here we send you money, so buy with the money burnt offerings and sin offerings and incense and prepare a grain offering, and offer them upon the altar of the Lord our God and pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and for the life of Belshazzar his son, that their days may be like the days of heaven, upon the earth.  And the Lord will give us strength, and He will give sight to our eyes, and we will live under the shadow of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Belshazzar his son, and we will serve them for a long time and find favor in their sight.  Pray for us to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and to this day the anger of the Lord and His wrath have not turned away from us.  So read this scroll, which we send to you, to make your confession in the house of the Lord, on festival days and on days of assembly.  And you shall say, "Uprightness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face, as on this day, befits us, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem, and our kings and our officials, and our priests and our prophets, and our forefathers; for we have sinned before the Lord, and disobeyed him and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, so as to follow the commands of the Lord which He set before us.  From the day when the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been neglectful in not obeying His voice.  And misfortunes have attended us, and the curse has come upon us which the Lord agreed upon with Moses His servant, on the days when the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that ran with milk and honey, as they have this day.  And we did not obey the voice of the Lord our God, expressed in all the words of the prophets whom He sent to us, but we followed each one the design of his own wicked heart so as to serve other gods, and do what was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God."