Baruch 4:20-37
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20 I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days.
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21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.
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22 For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.
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23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.
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24 Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.
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25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.
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26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.
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27 Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.
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28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more.
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29 For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
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30 Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.
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31 Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.
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32 Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.
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33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
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34 For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.
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35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.
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36 O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.
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37 Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.