Jeremiah 45

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.’ ” ’