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Jerusalem Exchanges Mourning for Glory

Chapter 5

1 Take off the garment of your mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.⁠ 2 Put on the robe of the righteousness from God. Set on your head a diadem of the glory of the Everlasting.⁠ 3 For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.⁠ 4 For your name will be called by God forever “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”.

God Leads Israel Home

5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height. Look around you toward the east and see your children gathered from the going down of the sun to its rising⁠ at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.⁠ 6 For they went from you on foot, being led away by their enemies, but God brings them in to you carried on high with glory, on a royal throne. 7 For God has appointed that every high mountain and the everlasting hills should be made low, and the valleys filled up to make the ground level, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God. 8 Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have shaded Israel by the commandment of God. 9 For God will lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.

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Compare Isaiah 60:2 and Baruch 5:3

Hebrew Bible · Deuterocanon

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Summary

Baruch echoes Isaiah 60, repeating the image of divine splendor rising over Jerusalem like the sun and shining on the nations. Baruch uses this language to portray Jerusalem as a beacon for the world and to connect itself to prophetic traditions.

Passages

Isaiah 60:2

Hebrew Bible
1 “Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you! 2 For, look, darkness covers the earth and deep darkness covers the nations, but the Lord shines on you; his splendor appears over you. 3 Nations come to your light, kings to your bright light. 4 Look all around you! They all gather and come to you—your sons come from far away, and your daughters are escorted by guardians.
740–450 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Isaiah

Baruch 5:3

Deuterocanon
1 Take off the garment of your mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God. 2 Put on the robe of the righteousness from God. Set on your head a diadem of the glory of the Everlasting. 3 For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven. 4 For your name will be called by God forever “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”.
200–50 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Baruch

References

"... In 5:3 the glory of God with which Jerusalem is clothed is summed up in the term נוגה which reflects Isaiah 60:3 where the Greek word (the only occurrence of its use in LXX Isaiah), translates the Hebrew נגה זרחך of the Masoretic text. In 1 Baruch 5:3 as in Isaiah 60:2 this glory, which emanates from God and rises upon Jerusalem, is universally visible for in 1 Baruch 5:3 “for God will show your splendour in the whole earth beneath heaven.” The use of this term may simply be attributed to a lexical preference, rather than to dependence on the LXX. A similar motif occurs in Isaiah 62:2, in which all nations and kings will see the righteousness and glory of Jerusalem ..."
Ruth Henderson, Second Temple Songs of Zion: A Literary and Generic Analysis of the Apostrophe to Zion (11QPsa XXII 1-15), Tobit 13:9-18 and 1 Baruch 4:30-5:9 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014), 249–250.

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