My LORD’s Bible2 Baruch 11
1Moreover, 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.
2But now, lo! the grief is infinite, And the lamentation measureless, For lo! you are prospered And Zion desolate.
3Who 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)?
4Our fathers went to rest without grief, And lo! the righteous sleep in the earth in tranquility;
5For they knew not this anguish, Nor yet had they heard of that which had befallen us.
6Would 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."