Jeremiah 45: The LORD's Personal Message to Baruch
A short, personal chapter where God answers Baruch's grief with a promise to spare his life.
This brief chapter records a private message from years earlier, given when Baruch first wrote Jeremiah's scroll in the events recalled around Jeremiah 44. Baruch has cried out in sorrow, and the LORD answers his exhaustion directly.
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:
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
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.’”
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.
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.”