Jeremiah 45 DBY
Summary: This brief chapter is addressed personally to Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, set at the time he wrote the scroll of oracles in Jehoiakim's fourth year (recalling ch. 36). Baruch has expressed despair, saying, "Woe is me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest" (v. 3). God's response, through Jeremiah, tells him not to seek great things for himself amid the coming national upheaval, but promises that wherever he goes his life will be spared to him "as a prize of war" (v. 5).
1The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Nerijah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,
2Thus saith Jehovah, theGod of Israel, concerning thee, Baruch:
3Thou didst say, Woe unto me! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am weary with my sighing, and I find no rest.
4Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, what I have built do I overthrow, and what I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land.
5And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not; for behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou shalt go.
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