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14 Finally, we exhort you to read publicly this book we are sending you in the house of the Lord on the festival days and the days of assembly, 15 and to proclaim:

Prayer for the Exiles in Babylon[a]

Confession of Guilt. “Justice is the hallmark of the Lord, our God, and we, the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem, are filled with shame this day, 16 that we, together with our kings and rulers, our priests and prophets, and our ancestors, Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Baruch 1:15 This psalm of collective supplication, which may reprise the prayer of Daniel (Dan 9:4-19), seems to have been part of a penitential liturgy of the time. It testifies to a keen sense of sin.