to the
frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine,
by sword, and by pestilence.

Bar 2:26
And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid
waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the
house of Israel and the house of Juda.

Bar 2:27
O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy
goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine,

Bar 2:28
As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou
didst command him to write the law before the children of
Israel, saying,

Bar 2:29
If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great
multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations,
where I will scatter them.

Bar 2:30
For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a
stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they
shall remember themselves.

Bar 2:31
And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give
them an heart, and ears to hear:

Bar 2:32
And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and
think upon my name,

Bar 2:33
And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked
deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which
sinned before the Lord.

Bar 2:34
And I will bring them again into the land which I promised
with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they
shall not be diminished.

Bar 2:35
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their
God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my
people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.

Bar 3:1
O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the
troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.

Bar 3:2
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; ar thou art merciful: and have
pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee.

Bar 3:3
For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly.

Bar 3:4
O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of
the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned
before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God:
for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us.

Bar 3:5
Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think
upon thy power and thy name now at this time.

Bar 3:6
For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we
praise.

Bar 3:7
And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to
the intent that we should call upon