Baruch 1:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had deported Jehoiachin, the rulers, the skilled workers,^[a] the nobles, and the common people and had taken them from Jerusalem to Babylon.

A Letter to Jerusalem

¹⁰ The people wrote:

Please use the money we are sending you to buy animals for the burnt offerings and the sin offerings, to buy incense, and to provide the grain offerings. Offer them on the altar of the Lord our God, ¹¹ and pray for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his son Belshazzar, that they may live as long as the heavens last.