¹The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words on a scroll from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

²Like this says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning you, O Baruch:

³You said, Woe to me, for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary in my groaning, and I have not found rest.

⁴Like this you will say to him: Like this says Yahweh: Behold, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to pluck up—and that is all of the land.

⁵And you, you are seeking great things for yourself; do not seek them, for behold, I am about to bring disaster upon all flesh, the utterance of Yahweh; but I will give you your being as plunder in all the places wherever you go.