Jeremiah 45

Christian Standard Bible

The Lord’s Message to Baruch

45 This is the word that the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah^(A) when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation^[a](B) in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:^{(C) 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^[b] groaning and have found no rest.”’^(D)

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^(E)—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^(F) wherever you go.”’”