耶和華給巴錄的信息

45 猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬執政第四年,尼利亞的兒子巴錄把耶利米口述的話寫在書卷上。耶利米說: 「巴錄啊,以色列的上帝耶和華說, 『你曾說,我真悲慘!因為耶和華使我痛上加痛,呻吟不止,身心疲憊,不得安寧。』 我要告訴你,耶和華說,『我必在整個大地上拆毀我所建立的,剷除我所栽培的。 你想為自己謀求大事嗎?不要謀求,因為我要給世人降下災禍。但不論你到哪裡,我必使你保住性命。這是耶和華說的。』」

45 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.