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.”’