Jeremiah 45

1The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch, son of Neriah, when he wrote on a scroll words from Jeremiah’s own mouth in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:[#Jer 36:4, 18, 32.]

2Thus says the Lord , God of Israel, to you, Baruch.

3You said, “Woe is me! the Lord has added grief to my pain. I have worn myself out with groaning; rest eludes me.”[#Lam 1:3; 5:5.]

4You must say this to him. Thus says the Lord : What I have built, I am tearing down; what I have planted, I am uprooting: all this land.[#Jer 18:7; Is 5:5–6.]

5And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them! I am bringing evil on all flesh—oracle of the Lord —but I will grant you your life as spoils of war, wherever you may go.[#Jer 25:26–29.]

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