Jeremiah 45 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord ’s Message to Baruch

¹ This is the word that the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah  when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation  , in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

² ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

³ “You have said, ‘Woe is me, because the Lord has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with  groaning and have found no rest.’ ”

⁴ ‘This is what you are to say to him: “This is what the Lord says: ‘What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot   #– #the whole land!

⁵ But as for you, do you pursue great things for yourself? Stop pursuing! For I am about to bring disaster on all humanity’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war  wherever you go.’ ” ’