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Jeremiah 45

45 This is what the prophet Jeremiah told Baruch the son of Neriah, after he had written on the scroll what Jeremiah dictated to him, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim king of Judah: 2 “Here is what the Eternal, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

You say, ‘Alas now, the Eternal adds anguish to my pain;

I am wearied out with moaning, rest I cannot!’

But the Eternal says, ‘When I have to demolish what I built,

when I have to uproot what once I planted,

do you expect smooth fortunes for yourself?

Never expect that! Only, I promise you,

as I bring doom now upon all mankind,

I will let you escape with your own life,

wherever you must go.’ ”