Baruch 5:1

1 Jerusalem, take off the clothes you have worn in your mourning and distress, and put on the eternal splendor of God's glory. 1

Baruch 5:1 In-Context

1 Jerusalem, take off the clothes you have worn in your mourning and distress, and put on the eternal splendor of God's glory.
2 Put around you the cloak of God's righteousness. Place on your head the crown of the glory of the Eternal God.
3 God will show your splendor to every nation on earth.
4 Forever he will say to you: "Your security comes from your righteousness, and your splendor from your devotion to me."
5 Get up, Jerusalem, stand on the mountaintop; see where God, the Holy One, is bringing your children together from the east and from the west. They are rejoicing that God has remembered them.

Cross References 1

  • 1. 5.1,Isaiah 52.1; 61.3, 10;Revelation 21.2.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.