“You shall say.
‘The Lord,
Our God,
Is in the right.
There is open shame
On us today,
On the people of Judah,
On the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
On our kings,
On our rulers,
On our priests,
On our prophets,
On our ancestors.
Because we have sinned
Before the Lord.
We have disobeyed him.
We have not heeded
The voice
Of the Lord,
Our God,
To walk
In the statutes
Of the Lord
That he set
Before us.”
Baruch told them how to pray. They were to say that they were ashamed because the Lord their God was right. However, it was just not the exiles, but the people in Judah and Jerusalem, along with their kings, rulers, priests, prophets, and their ancestors who had sinned. They had disobeyed and not heeded the voice of the Lord their God. They had not followed the laws that the Lord set before them.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 