The Lord’s Message to Baruch
1 This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriahwhen he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictationin the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
2 “This is what theLord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
3 ‘You have said, “Woe is me, because theLordhas added misery to my pain! I am worn out withgroaning and have found no rest.” ’
4 “This is what you are to say to him: ‘This is what theLordsays: What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot— 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 theLord’s declaration — ‘but I will grant you your life like the spoils of warwherever you go.’ ”
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