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Here is what Yirmeyahu said to Barukh the son of Neriyah when he wrote these words in a book at Yirmeyahu's dictation, in the fourth year of Y'hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y'hudah:
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"This is what Adonai the God of Isra'el says concerning you, Barukh. You said,
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'Woe to me now! ADONAI has compounded my pain with sorrow, I am weary from groaning, and I can find no relief!'
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"Tell him that ADONAI says: 'I will tear down what I built up, I will uproot what I planted, and this throughout the land.
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Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don't! For I am bringing disaster on everything living,' says ADONAI. 'But wherever you go, you will escape with your life.'"