THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES Old Testament Prophecy - Angelfire

BARUCH 1
1 These are the words of the document which Baruch son of Neriah, son of
Mahseiah, son of Zedekiah, son of Hasadiah, son of Hilkiah wrote in Babylon, 2 in the
fifth year, on the seventh of the month, in the season when the Chaldeans took
Jerusalem and burned her with fire.
3 Baruch read the words of this document in the ears of Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim,
king of Judah, in the ears of all the people who were coming to the book, 4 in the ears
of the powerful and the sons of kings, in the ears of the elders, and in the ears of all
the people, from small to great, everyone who resided in Babylon by the River Sud.
5 They wept and fasted, and made vows before the Lord. 6 They collected silver, as
much as the hand of each could hold, 7 and sent it to Jerusalem to the priest Jehoiakim
son of Hilkiah son of Shallum, to the priests, and to all the people who were found with
him in Jerusalem, 8 while he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, which had been
carried away from the sanctuary, to return them to the land of Judah on the tenth day
of Sivan. These were the silver vessels which Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah,
had made, 9 after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah, the rulers,
the prisoners, the powerful, and the people of the land from Jerusalem; he brought
them to Babylon.
10 They said, "Behold, we have sent silver to you. Buy with the silver whole burnt
offerings, those for sin, and incense. Make manna and offer it on the altar of the Lord
our God. 11 Pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and for the life of
Belshazzar his son, so that their days on earth may be like the days of heaven. 12 The
Lord will give us strength and will illuminate our eyes. We will live under the shadow of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and under the shadow of Belshazzar his son, and we
will serve them many days and find grace before them. 13 Pray for us to the Lord our
God, for we sinned against the Lord our God; the anger of the Lord and his wrath have
not turned away from us to this day. 14 You will read this document which we sent forth
to you in order to make a declaration in the house of the Lord on the day of the festival
and on days which are appointed.
15 You will say: `The Lord our God has righteousness, but as on this day we have
shame on our faces, the man of Judah and those who reside in Jerusalem, 16 our kings,
our rulers, our priests, our prophets, and our fathers; 17 we sinned before the Lord. 18 We
distrusted him, and we did not hear the voice of the Lord our God in order to walk in
the ordinances of the Lord which he gave in our presence. 19 From the day when the
Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt until this day, we have been
distrustful towards the Lord our God and we have been careless, so as not to listen to
his voice. 20 As on this day, the wicked things and the curse have clung to us, which the
Lord directed through Moses his servant on the day when he brought our fathers out of
the land of Egypt to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey. 21 We did not listen
to the voice of the Lord our God in agreement with all the words of the prophets whom
he sent forth to us. 22 Each was led in the thinking of his evil heart to work for other
gods, to do wicked things in the eyes of the Lord our God.