. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our
reproach.

5:2. Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

5:3. We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

5:4. We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

5:6. We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given
us.

5:6. We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we
might be satisfied with bread.

5:7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their
iniquities.

5:8. Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of
their hand.

5:9. We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the
sword in the desert.

5:10. Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the
famine.

5:11. They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of
Juda.

5:12. The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the
persons of the ancients.

5:13. They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under
the wood.

5:14. The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the
choir of the singers.

5:15. The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into
mourning.

5:16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have
sinned.

5:17. Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become
dim.

5:18. For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon
it.

5:19. But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from
generation to generation.

5:20. Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a
long time?

5:21. Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our
days, as from the beginning.

5:22. But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with
us.

THE PROPHECY OF BARUCH

BARUCH was a man of noble extraction, and learned in the law, secretary
and disciple to the prophet JEREMIAS, and a sharer in his labours and
persecutions: which is the reason why the ancient fathers have
considered this book as a part of the prophecy of JEREMIAS, and have
usually quoted it under his name.

Baruch Chapter 1

The Jews of Babylon send the book of Baruch with money to Jerusalem,
requesting their brethren there to offer sacrifice, and to pray for the
king and for them, acknowledging their manifold sins.

1:1. And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the so