Jeremiah 45 KJV
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 spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
2Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:
3Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
4Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will 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 the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
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