Morning light on a plain stone window ledge: a wooden case of reed pens, a small ink palette, a tied scroll and a burned-out clay oil lamp.

After the fall

Jeremiah 45

Are you worn out from chasing great things for yourself?

5 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1The callJosiah’s thirteenth year (about 627 BC): a prophet to the nations
2–6Return to MeBroken cisterns, faithless Judah, disaster from the north
7–10The temple gateThe temple sermon, a weeping prophet, the living God
11–20Covenant and complaintThe broken covenant, the potter, Jeremiah’s confessions
21–29Shepherds and prophetsKings judged, the Branch, seventy years, the yoke, the letter
30–33The Book of ComfortRestoration, the new covenant, a field bought in a siege
34–39The last days of JudahThe scroll burned, the cistern, Jerusalem falls (586 BC)
40–45After the fallGedaliah at Mizpah, the flight to Egypt, a word for BaruchChapter 45
46–51The nationsEgypt to Babylon: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
52Jerusalem fallsThe record of 586 BC, and a king released

Jeremiah’s Message to Baruch

This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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God

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

God

Night in a small stone room lit by one clay lamp burning low: the scribe Baruch, seen from the side, sits slumped with his head in his hands beside a long rolled scroll.

You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Question

Quick question

This word for Baruch is set after the fall of Jerusalem, but it was given years before. Look at 45:1.

When was this word given to Baruch?

God

Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

God

But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking!

Jeremiah 45:5

God

God

For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”

Pray

Lord, I have wanted great things for myself. Teach me to stop seeking them, and to be glad of the life You give me, wherever I go. Amen.

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But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking!

Jeremiah 45:5

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