¹Here is what Yirmeyahu said to Barukh the son of Neriyah when he wrote these words in a book at Yirmeyahu’s dictation, in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah:

²“This is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says concerning you, Barukh. You said,

³‘Woe to me now!

Adonai has compounded my pain with sorrow,

I am weary from groaning,

and I can find no relief!’

⁴“Tell him that Adonai says:

‘I will tear down what I built up,

I will uproot what I planted,

and this throughout the land.

⁵Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don’t! For I am bringing disaster on everything living,’ says Adonai . ‘But wherever you go, you will escape with your life.’”