thy name, and praise thee in
our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of
our forefathers, that sinned before thee.

Bar 3:8
Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast
scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to
payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which
departed from the Lord our God.

Bar 3:9
Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to
understand wisdom.

Bar 3:10
How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies'
land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou
art defiled with the dead,

Bar 3:11
That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?

Bar 3:12
Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.

Bar 3:13
For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest
have dwelled in peace for ever.

Bar 3:14
Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is
understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of
days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

Bar 3:15
Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her
treasures?

Bar 3:16
Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as
ruled the beasts upon the earth;

Bar 3:17
They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and
they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and
made no end of their getting?

Bar 3:18
For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and
whose works are unsearchable,

Bar 3:19
They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are
come up in their steads.

Bar 3:20
Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the
way of knowledge have they not known,

Bar 3:21
Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their
children were far off from that way.

Bar 3:22
It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been
seen in Theman.

Bar 3:23
The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of
Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of
understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or
remember her paths.

Bar 3:24
O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the
place of his possession!

Bar 3:25
Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.

Bar 3:26
There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of
so great stature, and so expert in war.

Bar 3:27
Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of
knowledge unto them: