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The Word that Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke to Barukh son of Neriyahu when he wrote these Words in a book from the mouth of Yirmeyahu, in the fourth year of Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehudah, saying,
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“Thus says Yahuah, Elohim of Yisra’el, concerning you, Barukh:
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You said, ‘Woe to me now, for Yahuah has added grief to my pain. I am weary in my sighing, and I have found no rest.’
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Thus you shall say to him, ‘Thus says Yahuah: See, what I built I am pulling down, and what I planted I am uprooting— even all this land.
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And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For see, I am bringing evil upon all flesh,’ declares Yahuah, ‘but I shall give your being to you as spoil in all the places where you go.’”