Jeremiah
Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, calls Judah to repent as Babylon approaches. He suffers rejection, watches the city fall, and yet records God’s promise to write the law on the heart.
American King James
Jeremiah 45
1The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch 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, 2Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: 3You did say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. ¶ 4Thus shall you say to him, The LORD says thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land. 5And seek you great things for yourself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says the LORD: but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
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