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 The Second Letter of Baruch. 
 
 The letter of Baruch the writer, 
 Which he sent from Jerusalem to Babylon, 
 And this is the missive which he sent, 
 Even Baruch the son of Neriah : 
 
 To the nine tribes and a half, 
 
 ThoL'e who are staying 
 
 Beyond the river Euphrates, 
 
 In which these things were written, 
 
 Thus saith Baruch 
 The son of Neriah to the brothers 
 Who are exiled, *' Mercy and peace. 
 I remember, my brothers. 
 
 The love of Him who conducted us. 
 Because He loved us from the first, 
 And that He never hated us, 
 But rather was training us. 
 
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 And surely I know 
 That lo we were all of us bound, 
 Twelve tribes in one bond, 
 As from one father 
 
 Ourselves were born. Therefore 
 
 I was the more careful 
 
 To leave for you the words 
 
 Of this letter before I die. 
 
 That ye may be comforted over the evil 
 
 That reached you, and that ye may grieve again 
 
 Over the evil that happened to your brothers, 
 
 And again also that ye may justify the judgment 
 
 Of Him Who decreed against you 
 That ye be exiled. For less 
 Is what ye suffered. 
 Than what ye did. 
 
 In order that in after times 
 
 Ye may be found worthy of your fathers. 
 
 Therefore if ye consider these things, 
 
 'l^hat it is for your good ye suffered now, 
 
 That ye should not afterward be judged and tortured. 
 
 Then ye will obtain an everlasting hope, 
 
 If so be that ye cast the more 
 
 From vour hearts that vain error, 
 
 
For which ye went from hence. 
 For if ye do this, thus 
 Constantly He will remember you 
 Who at all times cast out in our behalf 
 
 Those who were more than we, 
 
 That He may not always forget or forsake us, 
 
 But with many compassions 
 
 He may gather again those who were scattered. 
 
 So my brothers be ye informed 
 
 First of that which happened 
 
 To Zion ; that there mounted against us 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, 
 
 For we sinned against Him Who made us, 
 
 And we kept not the commands which He commanded us, 
 
 But there overtook us also what 
 
 Happened to you. More again we suffered. 
 
 For to us also it happened. 
 
 And now my brothers I make known to you 
 
 That when the foes surrounded the city 
 
 The> were sent as messengers of the Most High, 
 
 And they overthrew the strength of the stout 
 Wall, and dismantled the firm 
 Corners of iron, those things 
 Which could not be uprooted. 
 
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 But however some vessels 
 Of the vessels of the sanctuary they hid, 
 So that they might not be taken by the foe. 
 And when they had done this, 
 
 Then they surrendered them to the foe, 
 
 When the wall was overthrown; 
 
 And when the houses were plundered, 
 
 And when the palace was burned, 
 
 And the people were conquered. Because they were surrendered 
 
 Lest triumphing should be 
 
 The foes, and saying, " Thus 
 
 Ourselves prevailed by force." 
 
 Up also to the house of the Most High, 
 
 We will desolate with war. And your brothers also 
 
 They bound and conducted to Babylon, 
 
 And they made them dwell there. *' 
 
 And ourselves survive here, 
 
 A small remnant. This is 
 
 The trouble about wb-'^h I write to you 
 
 For surely I know 
 
 That was comforting you. 
 The dwelling of Zion, so long 
 As ye knew it was prospering, 
 More than the troubles 
 
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 Which were trouljling you, because ye were far from it, 
 But also in behalf of comfort 
 Hear ye a word. For myself 
 Was mourning over Zion 
 
 And entreating compassions from the Most High. 
 
 And I said, How long 
 
 Do these things stand for us, 
 
 And at all times evils come on us, 
 
 These things that the Mighty One did 
 
 According to the multitude of His compassions, 
 
 And the Most High after the greatness of His pity, 
 
 And He revealed to me a word that I should be comforted. 
 
 And He showed me a vision, so that 
 
 I should not be troubled more, 
 
 And He made known to me the secret of the times, 
 
 And the coming of the seasons He showed me. 
 
 Therefore my brothers, I write to you. 
 
 So that yc may be comforted from the multitude 
 
 Of your troubles. And be ye aware 
 
 That our Master requites us requital ■ 
 
 From all our foes, 
 
 According to all that they did to us, 
 Also that the more is approaching 
 The end which the Most High made. 
 
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And His compassions that are coming, and not 
 
 Far is the end of His judgment, 
 
 For so ourselves see now 
 
 The greatness of the prosperity of the heathen, 
 
 Though these are godless, 
 
 But this we liken to vanity; 
 
 And ourselves gaze on the greatness of their dominion, 
 
 Though these are impious, 
 
 But they will be like raindrops, 
 And ourselves see the stability of their power. 
 Though opposed to the Mighty One, 
 These stand every hour. 
 
 But they will be accounted as spittle ; 
 
 And ourselves thought on the glory 
 
 Of their greatness, though these 
 
 Keep not the commands of the Most High. 
 
 But as smoke they will pass, 
 A. '^ ourselves meditate on 
 The beauty of their show, though 
 These are involved in pollution. 
 
 But as grass 
 
 Which is scorched, they will fade ; and we made account 
 
 Of the force of their severity, 
 
 Though these remember not the end, 
 
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 But as straw which passes 
 
 They shall be crushed ; and ourselves consider 
 
 About the beauty of their power, 
 
 Though these deny His goodness. 
 
 That it is He Who gave to them, 
 But as a cloud which passes 
 They will pass, for the Most High 
 Hastens with haste His times, 
 
 And bringing, He brings His :,..•; ;<;ns, 
 
 And judging He will jud.Te those who are in His world. 
 
 And will erect everything in truth. 
 
 On account of all their deeds of pollution. 
 
 And searching He will search out concealed thoughts. 
 And all that in the chambers that are in 
 The members of a man, is treasured, 
 And to discovery before every one 
 
 He brings forth into rebuke. So then 
 Let not prevail over your hearts 
 One of those things ^^hich subsist, 
 But rather let us look forward, 
 
 Because that thing is coming 
 
 Which was promised to us. And let us not regard 
 
 Now the pleasures of the heathen, 
 
 But let us remember what 
 
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 At the end is promised to us, 
 Because passing pass by 
 The bounds of times and seasons, 
 And all that is in them together. 
 
 And at the end of the age, then He will show 
 The great power of his guiding, 
 When everything comes to judgment, 
 Yourselves then possess your hearts. 
 
 Trust ye what was from the first, 
 
 Because not from either 
 
 World would ye be rejoiced. Ikciuse now 
 
 Ye are exiled, and again ye would be tortured. 
 
 For what is now present 
 Or past or coming, 
 In all these neither 
 Is the evil fully evil, 
 
 Nor the good again. 
 
 Is it pcfectly good. 
 
 tor all the health 
 
 That is now, turns to sickness. 
 
 And all the might that is now, 
 
 Turns to wecikness; and all 
 
 The grandeur that is now, turns to misery; 
 
 And all the strength of youth 
 
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 Turns to old age and to ending, 
 
 And all the fairness of beauty that is now, 
 
 Turns to fading and deformity; 
 
 And all the dominion of pride that is now, 
 
 Turns to humiliation and to shame; 
 
 And all the glory of greatness that is now, 
 
 Turns to shame of silence; 
 
 And all the pomp and arrogance that is now, 
 
 Turns to downfall of stillness; 
 
 And all luxury and pleasure that is now, 
 
 Turns to overthrow and to decay; 
 
 And all the clamour of boasting that is now. 
 
 Turns to dust and to silence; 
 
 And all possessions and riches that are now. 
 
 Turn to the underworld alone; 
 
 And all greeds of desire that are now. 
 
 Turn to death without their wish; 
 
 And all desires of the passion that is now. 
 
 Turn to judgment of torture; 
 
 And all craft and cunning that is now. 
 
 Turns to reproof of truth; 
 And all sweetness of lust that is now, 
 Turns to judgment and to condemnation; 
 And all love of falsehood 
 
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 Turns to disgrace by the truth. 
 
 So while these all of them subsist, 
 
 Now hopes a man that they will not be punished, 
 
 But the end of all will come in truth. 
 
 So lo I will make known to you 
 While I live, 
 
 For I tell of excellence ye shall learn. 
 For the Mighty One commanded me, 
 
 That I instruct you and place before you 
 A little of the precepts 
 Of His judgments, before I die. 
 Recollect ye that it is true. 
 
 I will call as witness to witness against you, 
 Moses, heaven and earth, 
 And I say that if ye transgress 
 Against the law ye will be scattered. 
 
 And if ye keep it ye will be kept. 
 Moreover also lastly 
 I tell you this that when 
 Ye were staying together 
 
 Twelve tribes in the desert, 
 Even from utter his death 
 Ye thrust these things from you, 
 Therefore those things reac' ,d you, 
 

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 Which were told of from the first. 
 And now Moses was telling you 
 From the first that it might not 
 Befall you, and lo it befell you, 
 
 For ye forsook the laws. 
 Myself also, lo I say 
 To you after ye suffered, 
 That if ye obey those things 
 
 That were told you, ye will receive 
 From the Mighty One everything 
 That was treasured and kept for you. 
 And this my letter shall be 
 
 Between you and me for testimony 
 
 That ye be remembering the commands of the Mighty One, 
 
 So that also for myself there may be 
 
 A plea of defence, 
 
 Before Him Who sent me. 
 
 And be ye remembering the laws 
 
 A»--d Zion and the Holy Land, 
 
 And your brothers, and the treaty of your fathers, 
 
 And forget ye not the festivals and the rest day. 
 And commit ye this letter. 
 And the fulfilment of the law of your children 
 After you, as also 
 
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 Your fathers committed to you ; 
 And at all times constantly 
 Be ye supplicating and prayiwg 
 Earnestly from all your souls, 
 
 So that the Mighty One may think upon you 
 And may not consider the multitude of your sins, 
 And may remember the rectitude of your fathers. 
 For unless according to the multitude 
 
 Of His compassions He should judge us, 
 
 Alas for us to all generations. 
 
 But again be ye aware 
 
 That in former times, and in races from the first, 
 
 Those same our fathers had 
 For them the help of upright men 
 And of pious sages. Moreover also 
 We were in this our land, 
 
 And those were helping us 
 When we were sinning, 
 And they were entreating over us 
 From Him Who made us. 
 
 Because they were relying 
 
 Upon their Maker, and the Mighty One was hearing 
 
 Their prayers, and was sparing us. 
 
 But now the upright ones were gathered in. 
 
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 And the sages left, and also ourselves 
 Went forth from the land, 
 And Zion was bereft of us, 
 And we have nothing now 
 
 Except the Mighty One and His law. 
 So if we direct 
 
 And order our hearts, we shall receive 
 Ourselves all that we lost, 
 
 And much more than these things 
 That we lost, many times over. 
 For what we lost was what decays 
 And what we receive is undecaying. 
 
 And also to our brothers thus 
 
 I wrote at Babylon, that also to them 
 
 I might attest f^ ase same things, and let them be 
 
 At all times bef e your eyes, 
 
 All these things that are before said. 
 Because ever still in the Spirit 
 Are we, and in the power of our liberty, 
 And yet the Most High 
 
 Is long suffering with us here, 
 
 And He made knowi us what is about to be. 
 
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 So first that He may vindicate 
 
 His judgment and confirm 
 
 What is right for Him. Let us prepare 
 
 Our soul to receive and not for it to be taken away, 
 
 And that we may hope and not be ashamed, 
 And that we may repose with our fathers 
 And not be tortured with our foes, 
 For the youthhood of the world passed by, 
 
 And the strength of creation is already 
 
 Finished, and what is coming 
 
 Of the times is a short while. 
 
 And they pass and the pitcher reaches 
 
 The well, and the ship the harbour, 
 And the journey of the travellers the city, 
 And life to the end. And yet 
 Prepare ye your souls that while 
 
 Ye voyage and disembark from the ship 
 Ye may be eased, and not when ye go 
 Be condemned, for lo when 
 The Most High brings all these things 
 
 There is no space again there for returnmg, 
 
 And no limit to the times, 
 
 And no prolonging oi the seasons. 
 
 And no change of the course, 
 
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 And no space for supplication, 
 And no sending of requests, 
 And no obtaining of knowledge, 
 And no gift of love, 
 
 And no space for penitence of soul 
 And no deprecation of folly, 
 And no entreaty of fathers. 
 And no prayer of sage. 
 
 And no help of upright ones. 
 There is there decree of judgment, 
 Of decay, a road of fire, 
 And a path that reaches to the pit. 
 
 Therefore one by one each one, 
 One law, one world, 
 And for those who are in it 
 An end for them all their life. 
 
 And those that He can He will make expiation 
 For them, and together He will destroy 
 Those that are stained with sin. 
 So when ye receive this my letter 
 
 Read ye it in your assemblies with care, 
 And be ye studying in it. 
 Especially on the days of your fasts. 
 And ye be remembering me 
 
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