Jeremiah 45 WEB
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 message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
2“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
3‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’
4“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
5Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”
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