Jeremiah
Jeremiah takes its name from the prophet Yirmeyahu (יִרְמְיָהוּ), who was called by God to speak to Judah during the years leading up to Jerusalem’s fall and exile. The book records warnings of judgment, calls to repentance, Jeremiah’s personal grief, and promises of future restoration. Even as the nation turns away from God, Jeremiah reveals the Lord as just, patient, and deeply compassionate—the God who disciplines His people yet continues to pursue them and promises a new covenant written on their hearts.
Jeremiah 45
Jeremiah’s Message to Baruch
1 This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah 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 sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”
4 Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
5 But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
Footnotes:
45:4 Literally Thus you shall say to him:
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