Old Testament Commentary - Jeremiah 45

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CHAPTER 45 Jeremiah promises Baruch that his life shall be preserved.
1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto ^aBaruch 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 Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no ^arest.
4 ¶ Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I ^abreak down, and that which I have planted I will ^bpluck up, even ^cthis whole land. 5 And ^aseekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy ^blife will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest^a.	5^a thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest Now given in the fourth year of Jehoiakim before the destructions which came upon Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah and of the remnant Jews in Egypt, was this that the life of Baruch would be preserved and given unto him as his reward for remaining the faithful scribe of Jeremiah the prophet.