God’s message to Baruch
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📚✭The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written✭ these words from the mouth of Jeremiah in a book, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 📚✭“Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: 3 📚You said, ‘Woe to me now! For the LORD has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.’ 4 📚✭“You shall say this to him: ‘Thus says the LORD: See, I will break down what I have built, and I will uproot what I have planted, this whole land. 5 📚And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For, see, I will bring disaster on all flesh, says the LORD. But I will give your life to you like plunder every place you go.’ ”