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.
The word which Jeremiah the prophet spake, unto Baruch son of Neriah,—when he had written these words upon a book, from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah saying—
Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Unto thee, O Baruch,—
Thou didst say, Surely woe to me! For Yahweh hath added sorrow unto my pain,—I am weary with my moaning, And rest, have I not found!
Thus, shalt thou say unto him Thus, saith Yahweh,—Lo! what I had built, I am pulling down, And what I had planted, I am rooting up,—And that is, all the land:
Wouldst, thou, then seek to secure for thyself great things? Do not seek! For behold me! bringing in calamity upon all flesh, Declareth Yahweh, Nevertheless I will give thee thine own life as a spoil, in all places whithersoever thou goest.