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1These are the words of the book that Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah son of Zedekiah son of Hasadiah son of Hilkiah wrote in Babylon,[#Jer 32.12; 45.2; 51.59]
2in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.[#2 Kings 24.10–16; 25.8–10]
3Baruch read the words of this book to Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and to all the people who came to hear the book[#2 Kings 24.15]
4and to the nobles and the princes and to the elders and to all the people, small and great, all who lived in Babylon by the River Sud.[#2 Kings 23.2; Jer 42.1]
5Then they wept and fasted and prayed before the Lord;
6they collected as much silver as each could give[#v 10; Deut 16.17; 2 Cor 8.3]
7and sent it to Jerusalem to the priest Jehoiakim son of Hilkiah son of Shallum the priest and to the priests and to all the people who were present with him in Jerusalem.
8At the same time, on the tenth day of Sivan, Baruch took the vessels of the house of the Lord that had been carried away from the temple, to return them to the land of Judah—the silver vessels that Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, had made[#2 Kings 24.13, 17; 2 Chr 36.10; #1.8 Gk he]
9after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem Jeconiah and the princes and the prisoners and the nobles and the people of the land and brought them to Babylon.[#2 Kings 23.6, 15; Jer 24.1]
10They said, “Here we send you silver, so buy with the silver burnt offerings and for purification offering and incense, and prepare a grain offering, and offer them on the altar of the Lord our God,[#v 6 ; Jer 17.26; 41.5; #1.10 Gk and for sin]
11and pray for the life of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and for the life of his son Belshazzar, so that their days on earth may be like the days of heaven.[#Ezra 1.7; 6.10; Jer 28.14; 29.7; Dan 5.1, 2]
12The Lord will give us strength and light to our eyes; we shall live under the protection of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and under the protection of his son Belshazzar, and we shall serve them many days and find favor in their sight.[#Ezra 9.8; Ps 13.3; Dan 4.12; 7.1; 8.1; #1.12 Gk in the shadow]
13Pray also 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.
14And you shall read aloud this scroll that we are sending you, to make your confession in the house of the Lord on the days of the festivals and at appointed seasons.[#Hos 9.5]
15“And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us, this day, public shame, on the people of Judah, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,[#Neh 9.32–34; Ps 44.15; Dan 9.7; Bar 2.6]
16and on our kings, our rulers, our priests, our prophets, and our ancestors,
17because we have sinned before the Lord.
18We have disobeyed him and have not heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the statutes of the Lord that he set before us.[#Dan 9.6, 10; Bar 2.10]
19From the time when the Lord brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not listening to his voice.[#2 Kings 21.15; Jer 7.25]
20So to this day there have clung to us the calamities and the curse that the Lord declared through his servant Moses at the time when he brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.[#Ex 3.8; Deut 28.15–68; Bar 3.4; 4.29]
21We did not listen to the voice of the Lord our God in all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us,[#2 Chr 36.15; Jer 25.3, 4]
22but all of us followed the intent of our own wicked hearts by serving other gods and doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.