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Jeremiah 45

Jeremiah’s Message to Baruch

1The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying:

2Thus said the LORD, God of Israel, concerning you, O Baruch: 3You said: Woe is me, please! for the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and rest I have not found.

4Thus you shall say to him: Thus said the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—and this is the whole land. 5And you—do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I am bringing evil upon all flesh^a—declaration of the LORD—but I will give to you your soul^b as spoil in all the places where you go.