Baruch 1:7-17

7 and the collection was sent to Jerusalem to Jehoiakim the High Priest, son of Hilkiah and grandson of Shallum, and to the other priests and to all the people who were with him in Jerusalem.
8 On the tenth day of the month of Sivan, Baruch took the sacred utensils which had been carried away from the Temple and returned them to Judah. These were the silver utensils which Zedekiah son of King Josiah of Judah had ordered made
9 after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had deported Jehoiachin, the rulers, the skilled workers, [a] the nobles, and the common people and had taken them from Jerusalem to Babylon.
10 The people wrote: Please use the money we are sending you to buy animals for the burnt offerings and the sin offerings, to buy incense, and to provide the grain offerings. Offer them on the altar of the Lord our God,
11 and pray for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his son Belshazzar, that they may live as long as the heavens last.
12 Then the Lord will strengthen us and be our guide. Nebuchadnezzar and his son Belshazzar will protect us, and we will be loyal to them as long as we live; then they will be pleased with us.
13 We ask you also to pray to the Lord God for us, because we have sinned against him, and he is still angry with us.
14 Please read this book that we are sending you and make your own confession of sin in the Temple on the first day of the Festival of Shelters and on other holy days of assembly.
15 This is the confession you should make: "The Lord our God is righteous, but we are still covered with shame. All of us - the people of Judah, the people of Jerusalem,
16 our kings, our rulers, our priests, our prophets, and our ancestors have been put to shame,
17 because we have sinned against the Lord our God

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. skilled workers; [Greek] prisoners.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.