The Lord’s Message to Baruch

1This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah a when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation b  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 e groaning and have found no rest.” ’ f

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 g — the whole land! 5But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I am about to bring disaster on every living creature’ — this is the LORD’s declaration — ‘but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war h wherever you go.’ ”