1Moreover, I, Baruch, say this against thee, Babylon: 'If thou hadst prospered, And Zion had dwelt in her glory, Yet the grief to us had been great That thou shouldst be equal to Zion.
2But now, lo! the grief is infinite, And the lamentation measureless, For lo! thou art prospered And Zion desolate.
3Who will be judge regarding these things? Or to whom shall we complain regarding that which has befallen us? O Yahuah (Lord), how hast Thou borne (it)?
4Our fathers went to rest without grief, And lo! the righteous sleep in the earth in tranquillity;
5For they knew not this anguish, Nor yet had they heard of that which had befallen us.
6Would that thou hadst ears, O earth, And that thou hadst a heart, O dust: That ye might go and announce in Sheol, And say to the dead: