The message that Jeremia the prophetess spoke to Baruch the daughter of Neriah, when she wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremia, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the daughter of Josiah, queen of Judah, saying,

Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch:

You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

Thus shall you tell her, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.