When Baruch^a son of Neriah^b wrote on a scroll^c the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim^d son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: You said, ‘Woe^e to me! The Lord has added sorrow^f to my pain;^g I am worn out with groaning^h and find no rest.’ⁱ But the Lord has told me to say to you, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot^j what I have planted,^k throughout the earth.^l Should you then seek great^m things for yourself? Do not seek them.ⁿ For I will bring disaster^o on all people,^p declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape^q with your life.’ ”^r

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Cross references

a Jer 32:12
b Jer 51:59
c Ex 17:14; Ps 40:7
d 2Ch 36:5
e Isa 24:16; 1Co 9:16
f Ps 119:28; Mk 14:34; Ro 9:2
g Job 6:10
h Job 23:2; Ps 69:3
i Jos 1:13; Mt 11:28; Heb 4:3
j Jer 42:10
k Jer 11:17
l Dt 28:63; 30:9; Isa 5:5–7; Jer 18:7–10
m Ps 131:1
n Mt 6:25–27,33
o Jer 11:11; 40:2
p Jer 2:35
q Ps 68:20; Jer 44:28
r Jer 21:9