Bar 1:1 

And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of 

Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of 

Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon, 

Bar 1:2 

In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what 

time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire. 

Bar 1:3 

And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of 

Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of 

all the people that came to hear the book, 

Bar 1:4 

And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and 

in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the 

lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon 

by the river Sud. 

Bar 1:5 

Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord. 

Bar 1:6 

They made also a collection of money according to every man's 

power: 

Bar 1:7 

And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest, 

the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to 

all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem, 

Bar 1:8 

At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of 

the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them 

into the land of Juda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, 

silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Jada 

had made, 

Bar 1:9 

After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away 

Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty 

men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought 

them unto Babylon. 

Bar 1:10 

And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you 

burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye 

manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God; 

Bar 1:11 

And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and 

for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon 

earth as the days of heaven: 

Bar 1:12 

And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and 

we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of 

Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall 

serve them many days, and find favour in their sight. 

Bar 1:13 

Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned 

against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord 

and his wrath is not turned from us. 

Bar 1:14 

And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to 

make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and 

solemn days. 

Bar 1:15 

And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth 

righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come 

to pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of 

Jerusalem, 

Bar 1:16 

And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and 

to our prophets, and to our fathers: 

Bar 1:17 

For we have sinned before the Lord, 

Bar 1:18 

And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of 

the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us 

openly: 

Bar 1:19 

Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of 

the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been 

disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in 

not hearing his voice. 

Bar 1:20 

Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the 

Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought 

our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that 

floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day. 

Bar 1:21 

Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord 

our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he 

sent unto us: 

Bar 1:22 

But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked 

heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the 

Lord our God.