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Jeremiah 45
A short, personal word, dated back to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, when Baruch wrote Jeremiah's words in a book. Baruch has cried out in exhaustion: 'Woe is me now! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.' The placement is striking. This early scene closes the book's narrative section, addressing the scribe who recorded it all. Watch how God answers a private complaint with the same vocabulary of breaking down and plucking up that runs through Jeremiah's whole commission.
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The 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,
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“The LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
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‘You said, “Woe is me now! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’
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“You shall tell him, the LORD says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
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Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says the LORD, ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’”
A small mercy for the scribe
God refuses Baruch the comfort of 'great things' in a collapsing world: what was built will be broken down, what was planted plucked up, across the whole land.
Yet the word ends in a personal reprieve: 'I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.' Survival, not greatness, is the gift offered to the man who held the pen.
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