Bar 2:1 

Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he 

pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged 

Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and 

against the men of Israel and Juda, 

Bar 2:2 

To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under 

the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to 

the things that were written in the law of Moses; 

Bar 2:3 

That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh 

of his own daughter. 

Bar 2:4 

Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all 

the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and 

desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath 

scattered them. 

Bar 2:5 

Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have 

sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto 

his voice. 

Bar 2:6 

To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us 

and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day. 

Bar 2:7 

For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath 

pronounced against us 

Bar 2:8 

Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn 

every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart. 

Bar 2:9 

Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord 

hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his 

works which he hath commanded us. 

Bar 2:10 

Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the 

commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us. 

Bar 2:11 

And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people 

out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and 

with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast 

gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day: 

Bar 2:12 

O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have 

dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances. 

Bar 2:13 

Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among 

the heathen, where thou hast scattered us. 

Bar 2:14 

Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us 

for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them 

which have led us away: 

Bar 2:15 

That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, 

because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name. 

Bar 2:16 

O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow 

down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us. 

Bar 2:17 

Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the 

graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto 

the Lord neither praise nor righteousness: 

Bar 2:18 

But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and 

feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give 

thee praise and righteousness, O Lord. 

Bar 2:19 

Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, 

O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our 

kings. 

Bar 2:20 

For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as 

thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, saying, 

Bar 2:21 

Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the 

king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto 

your fathers. 

Bar 2:22 

But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the 

king of Babylon, 

Bar 2:23 

I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from 

without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the 

voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the 

whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants. 

Bar 2:24 

But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of 

Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou 

spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of 

our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of 

their place. 

Bar 2:25 

And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the 

frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, 

by sword, and by pestilence. 

Bar 2:26 

And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid 

waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the 

house of Israel and the house of Juda. 

Bar 2:27 

O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy 

goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine, 

Bar 2:28 

As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou 

didst command him to write the law before the children of 

Israel, saying, 

Bar 2:29 

If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great 

multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, 

where I will scatter them. 

Bar 2:30 

For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a 

stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they 

shall remember themselves. 

Bar 2:31 

And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give 

them an heart, and ears to hear: 

Bar 2:32 

And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and 

think upon my name, 

Bar 2:33 

And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked 

deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which 

sinned before the Lord. 

Bar 2:34 

And I will bring them again into the land which I promised 

with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and 

they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they 

shall not be diminished. 

Bar 2:35 

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their 

God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my 

people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.