Jeremiah 45:4

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹This 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: ²"This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: ³You 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.'" ⁴Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: "This is what the LORD says: I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the land!⁵But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will grant your life as plunder."

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that which: Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 18:7-10, Jeremiah 31:28, Genesis 6:6, Genesis 6:7, Psalms 80:8-16, Isaiah 5:2-7

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 7:20 - I pluck Psalms 41:2 - preserve Ecclesiastes 3:2 - a time to plant Ecclesiastes 3:3 - a time to break Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Jeremiah 11:17 - that Jeremiah 12:2 - hast Jeremiah 39:18 - but Daniel 11:4 - be plucked

Cross-References

Genesis 37:28
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 50:18
His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, "We are your slaves!"

Matthew 14:27
But Jesus immediately spoke up: "Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid."

Acts 9:5
"Who are You, Lord?" Saul asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," He replied.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus shalt thou say unto him,.... This is spoken to Jeremiah, and is an order from the Lord to him, what he should say in his name to Baruch:

the Lord saith thus, behold, [that] which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; the Jewish nation, both as to church and state; which the Lord had built up as a spacious and beautiful house to dwell in, and had planted as a vineyard, and set it with pleasant plants; but now would demolish this building, and destroy this plantation:

even this whole land; not a few cities only, or only Jerusalem the metropolis, but the whole land of Judea; no part of it but what should be left desolate. So the Targum,

"even the whole land of Israel, which is mine.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

land - Or, earth. Baruch’s lot was cast in one of those troublous times when God enters into judgment with all flesh Jeremiah 45:5. It was not Judaea only but the whole known world that was thrown into turmoil by Nebuchadnezzars energy Jeremiah 25:26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 45:4. Behold, that which I have built — I most certainly will fulfil all those threatenings contained in the roll thou hast written; for I will destroy this whole land.