Jeremiah · Chapter 45 · 5 verses
Jeremiah 45
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Jeremiah 45 — Babylonian Conquest
Jeremiah — Prophet during Jerusalem's fall, witness to national collapse. Set in Jerusalem, during Jehoiakim's reign. In a personal message to his faithful scribe Baruch, God acknowledges the young man's weariness and grief from recording Jeremiah's harsh prophecies. God promises that while He will destroy the nation, He will preserve Baruch's life as his reward for faithful service.
“Jeremiah 45:5” — 45:5
God offers personal comfort to a discouraged servant who has faithfully supported His prophet through impossible times.
Read when: Read this when you're exhausted from serving faithfully while everything around you seems to be falling apart.
1The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 2Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch: 3You said, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. 4You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. 5Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.