Baruch exhorts the People to prepare themselves for worse Evils
1 And it came to pass after these things: that I went to the people and said unto them: “Assemble unto me all your elders and I will speak words unto them.”
2 And they all assembled in the valley of the Kidron.
3 And I answered and said unto them:
Hear, O Israel, and I will speak to you,
And give ear, O seed of Jacob, and I will instruct you.
4 Forget not Zion,
But hold in remembrance the anguish of Jerusalem.
5 For lo! the days come,
When everything that is shall become the prey of corruption
And be as though it had not been.