Jer 45 | HCSB | STEP | This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet 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 :

Jeremiah 45

The Lord’s Message to Baruch

1 This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah ^a when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation ^{▼▼Lit scroll from Jeremiah’s mouth
,} ^c in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: ^d 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 ^{▼▼Lit I labored in my} groaning and have found no rest.”’ ^f

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 ^g – the whole land! 5 But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I am about to bring disaster on every living creature’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war ^h wherever you go.’”