Second Baruch

And the seventh dark waters that you saw:

this is the perversion of the counsel of Jeroboam,

who devised to make two golden calves,

and all the wicked deeds that the kings who were after him committed,

and the wickedness

of Jezebel,

and the worship of idols which

Israel

served at that time,

and the withholding of rain and the famines that occurred,

until women ate the fruit

of their wombs,

and the time of their captivity, which came upon the nine and a half tribes,

because they were in many sins.

And Shalmaneser, king of the Assyrians, came

and took them captive.

Concerning the Gentiles, however, it is much to tell

how unrighteous they were and did wickedly at all times,

and were not

ever justified.

These are the

†seventh†

dark waters that you saw.