¹And when the morning was come, behold, the host of the Chaldeans compassed the city round about.

²And the great angel sounded the trumpet, saying: Enter the city, O host of the Chaldeans; for behold, the gate is opened unto you.

³Wherefore let the king enter with his multitudes, and let him take all the people captive.

⁴But Jeremiah, taking the keys of the temple, went forth outside the city and cast them away before the sun, saying: I say unto thee, O Sun, take the keys of the temple of God and guard them until the day in which the LORD shall require them of thee.

⁵For we have not been found worthy to keep them, for we have become unfaithful stewards.

⁶And whilst Jeremiah yet wept for the people, they brought him forth with the people and dragged them away into Babylon.

⁷But Baruch put dust upon his head and sat and made this lamentation, saying: Wherefore hath Jerusalem been laid waste? Because of the iniquities of the beloved people, she was delivered into the hands of the enemies; because of our iniquities and those of the people.

⁸But let not the lawless ones boast and say: We were mighty enough to take the city of God by our own strength; nay, but it was delivered unto you because of our iniquities.

⁹And God shall have pity upon us and cause us to return unto our city; but ye shall not endure!

¹⁰Blessed are our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for they departed from this world and beheld not the destruction of this city.

¹¹And when he had spoken thus, Baruch departed from the city, weeping and saying: Grieving because of thee, O Jerusalem, I went forth from thee.

¹²And he abode sitting in a tomb, and the angels came unto him and declared unto him all things which the LORD had revealed unto him through them.

¹³And when he had departed and the sun had appeared at the dawn, behold, the host of the Chaldeans, having come, had compassed the city of Jerusalem round about.

¹⁴And the great angel sounded the trumpet, saying: Enter the city, ye whole host of the Chaldeans; for behold, the gates are opened unto you.

¹⁵Then Jeremiah, taking the keys of the temple, went forth outside the city, and casting them away before the sun, said: Take them and guard them until the day in which the LORD shall require them of thee.

¹⁶For we have not been found worthy to keep them.

¹⁷And Jeremiah went with the people into captivity in Babylon.

¹⁸But Baruch departed from the city and abode sitting in a tomb.