Christian Standard Bible

Jeremiah 45

1 This is the word that the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah's dictation in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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 groaning and have found no rest."'

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 — the whole land!

5 But as for you, do you pursue great things for yourself? Stop pursuing! For I am about to bring disaster on all humanity" — this is the LORD's declaration — "but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war wherever you go."'" Prophecies against the Nations

Chapter Summary

God rebukes Baruch's despair, promising him his life as a reward wherever he goes.

Book Summary

Jeremiah is the weeping prophet's forty-year call for Judah to repent before the Babylonian conquest. Amid judgment he announces a new covenant written on the heart, and God's plans of welfare and hope for His people.

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