1:12. And that the Lord may give us strength, and enlighten our eyes, that we may live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and may serve them many days, and may find favour in their sight. 1:13. And pray ye for us to the Lord our God: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned away from us even to this day. 1:14. And read ye this book, which we have sent to you to be read in the temple of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days. 1:15. And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth justice, but to us confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to all Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 1:16. To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers. 1:17. We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not believed him, nor put our trust in him: 1:18. And we were not obedient to him, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments which he hath given us. 1:19. From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going astray we turned away from hearing his voice. 1:20. And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. 1:21. And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us: 1:22. And we have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God. Baruch Chapter 2 A further confession of the sins of the people, and of the justice of God. 2:1. Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda: 2:2. That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses: 2:3. That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter. 2:4. And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us. 2:5. And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice. 2:6. To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. 2:7. For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are come upon us: 2:8. And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we might return every one of us from our most wicked ways.