Baruch 5
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 5
1 Remove your robe of mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem,
and adorn yourself forever with the splendor of the glory of God.
2 Wrap yourself with the cloak of God’s justice,
and place on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting.
3 For God will reveal your splendor to every nation under the heavens;
4 and you will forever be called by God:
“The Peace of Justice and The Glory of Piety.”
5 Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the heights
and look toward the east;
behold your children gathered from the west and the east
at the command of the Holy One,
rejoicing that God has remembered them.
6 They departed from you on foot,
led away by their enemies.
But God will bring them back to you,
borne aloft in glory as though on a royal throne.
7 For God has decreed
that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be leveled
and that the valleys be filled to make level ground,
so that Israel may walk securely in the glory of God.
8 The woods and every type of fragrant tree
have provided shade for Israel at God’s command.
9 For God will lead Israel with joy,
by the light of his glory,
with the mercy and uprightness that come from him.
