Baruch
Master, you talk at random. Speak in words that I can believe and understand.
Jeremiah
Words that you can believe? But Baruch will you believe the words that I have to say to you at this hour beneath the stars? I fear you will deny me, will laugh at me, for what I would fain say will sound like nonsense in your ears.
Baruch
Faith in you is my very life.
Jeremiah
Hearken, then. [He speaks low and impressively] All that is now happening, I have beheld in my dreams for months past. Not a star shines in heaven which I have not seen above this wall and above God’s temple. I have looked down upon the multitude of the foe, upon their myriad tents. Baruch, do you hear me?
[Shuddering] I hear, I hear.