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The Lord's Message to Baruch

¹ This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet 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 seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I am about to bring disaster on every living creature'—this is the Lord's declaration—‘but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war^(f) wherever you go.'"