Jeremiah

Chapter 45

Jeremiah’s Message to Baruch

Jeremiah 45 preserves a private word to Baruch from the days when Jeremiah's prophecies were first being written on a scroll. The LORD acknowledges Baruch's exhaustion and grief, reminds him that a time of tearing down has come upon the whole land, and forbids him from seeking greatness for himself, while still promising him the mercy of life preserved wherever he goes.

This brief chapter provides a personal counterpart to Jeremiah's public judgments. It shows that even the prophet's faithful scribe must surrender ambition in a season of national collapse, and that the proper gift in such a time is not prominence or ease but preservation under the LORD's hand.

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vv. 1-5

Jeremiah’s Message to Baruch

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T¹his 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: ³You 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.’” ⁴Thus 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. ⁵But 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.”

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01vv. 1-5Jeremiah’s Message to BaruchThe word of the LORD comes to Baruch through Jeremiah while Baruch is writing Jeremiah's words on a scroll in Jehoiakim's reign. The LORD addresses Baruch's complaint of sorrow and weariness, explains that the coming work is one of demolishing and uprooting across the whole land, and tells him not to seek great things for himself, because although disaster is coming on all flesh, Baruch will be granted his life as a spoil wherever he goes.