2 Baruch
Chapter 11
- 1 Moreover, I, Baruch, say this against you, Babylon: 'If you had prospered, And Zion had dwelt in her glory, Yet the grief to us had been great That you should be equal to Zion.
- 2 But now, lo! the grief is infinite, And the lamentation measureless, For lo! you are prospered And Zion desolate.
- 3 Who will be judge regarding these things? Or to whom shall we complain regarding that which has befallen us? O Lord, how have you borne (it)?
- 4 Our fathers went to rest without grief, And lo! the righteous sleep in the earth in tranquility;
- 5 For they knew not this anguish, Nor yet had they heard of that which had befallen us.
- 6 Would that you had ears, O earth, And that you had a heart, O dust: That you might go and announce in Sheol, And say to the dead:
- 7 "Blessed are you more than we who live."