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Jeremiah 45

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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¹ This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah ⓐ when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation [1] ⓑ in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: ⓒ

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 [2] groaning and have found no rest.”’ ⓓ

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 ⓔ — the whole land!

⁵ But 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 ⓕ wherever you go.’”

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1	This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah ⓐ when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation [1] ⓑ in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: ⓒ
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 [2] groaning and have found no rest.”’ ⓓ
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 ⓔ — the whole land!
5	But 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 ⓕ wherever you go.’”

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