Jeremiah 45 - Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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.”’”

Footnotes

  1. 45:1 Lit scroll from Jeremiah’s mouth
  2. 45:3 Lit I labored in my

Cross references

  1. 45:1 : Jr 32:12
  2. 45:1 : Jr 36:4,18
  3. 45:1 : Jr 36:1
  4. 45:3 : Ps 6:6
  5. 45:4 : Jr 24:6
  6. 45:5 : Jr 21:9; 38:2; 39:18