Jeremiah

Jeremiah 45

Baruch being dismayed, Jeremiah instructeth and comforteth him.


1THE word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto aBaruch the son of Neriah, bwhen 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,

a ch. 32.12. b ch. 36.1,4,26,32.

2Thus csaith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;

c Is. 50.4. 2Co. 1.4. Is. 63.9.

3Thou didst say, dWoe is me now! for the LORD hath eadded grief to my sorrow; I ffainted in my sighing, and I gfind no rest.

d Job 23.2. Ps. 120.5,6; 42.7; 130.1. e ch. 36.26. Ps. 69.27. La. 1.3; 3.1. Ac. 20.23. f Ps. 27.13. g Ps. 77.3,4.

4¶Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; hBehold, that which I have built will I ibreak down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

h Ps. 52.5. ch. 1.10; 31.28. i Is. 5.5.

5And jseekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: kfor, behold, I will lbring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee mfor a *prey in all places whither thou goest.

*prey-spoil, plunder.

j 2Ki. 5.26. Ps. 4.6. Mat. 6.34. He. 13.5. 1Ti. 6.6. ch. 51.59. k Lu. 12.15. ch. 25.26. Is. 66.16; 65.12,13. l Zep. 3.8. m ch. 39.18; 21.9; 38.2; 15.11,21.