Baruch 3 — RVA

3Verse 1O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.^{Verse 2}Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for thou art a merciful God: yea, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before thee.^{Verse 3}For thou sittest as king for ever, and we perish evermore.^{Verse 4}O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayer of⁺the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before thee, that hearkened not unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues clave unto us.^{Verse 5}Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember thy power and thy name now at this time.^{Verse 6}For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise.^{Verse 7}For for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts,⁺to the intent that we should call upon thy name: and we will praise thee in our captivity, for we have⁺called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before thee.^{Verse 8}Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.^{Verse 9}Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.^{Verse 10}How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,^{Verse 11}that thou art counted with them that go down into⁺the grave?^{Verse 12}Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.^{Verse 13}For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.^{Verse 14}Learn where is⁺wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.^{Verse 15}Who hath found out her place? and who hath come into her treasuries?^{Verse 16}Where are the princes of the heathen, and such as ruled the beasts that are upon the earth;^{Verse 17}they that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end?^{Verse 18}For they that⁺wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are past finding out,^{Verse 19}they are vanished and gone down to⁺the grave, and others are come up in their steads.^{Verse 20}Younger men have seen the light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,^{Verse 21}neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children laid hold of it: they are far off from⁺their way.^{Verse 22}It hath not been heard of in Canaan, neither hath it been seen in Teman.^{Verse 23}The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths.^{Verse 24}O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!^{Verse 25}great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.^{Verse 26}There were the giants born that were famous of old, great of stature, and expert in war.^{Verse 27}These did not God choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them:^{Verse 28}so they perished, because they had no⁺wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.^{Verse 29}Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?^{Verse 30}Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for choice gold?^{Verse 31}There is none that knoweth her way, nor any that comprehendeth her path.^{Verse 32}But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, he found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:^{Verse 33}he that sendeth forth the light, and it goeth; he called it, and it obeyed him with fear:^{Verse 34}and the stars shined in their watches, and were glad: when he called them, they said, Here we be; they shined with gladness unto him that made them.^{Verse 35}This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him.^{Verse 36}He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him.^{Verse 37}Afterward did she appear upon earth, and was conversant with men.