 1 The Word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of King Josiah of Judah saying, 2 Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: 3 You said, Woe is me now, for the Lord has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. 4 So you shall say to him, The Lord says this: Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, even all the land itself to me. 5 Do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says the Lord. But I will give your life to you as a prize, in all places where you go.
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