The LORD’S Message to Baruch
1 This is the word that the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah b when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation A,c in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: d 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.” ’ e
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 f—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 everyone”—this is the LORD’S declaration—“but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war g wherever you go.” ’ ”