¹The words which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at Jeremiah's dictation in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, and he said, ²“This is what the Lord God of Israel says to you, Baruch: ³‘You have said, «Oh woe is me, for the Lord has added grief to my sorrow. I have toiled in my sighing, and I have not found rest.» ’ ⁴This is what you will say to him: ‘This is what the Lord says: «Behold, what I have built, I will demolish, and what I have planted, I will pluck up, so doing to all that land. ⁵Now will you ask for great things for yourself? Do not ask for them, for I am about to bring harm on all flesh, says the Lord, but I will give you your life as spoil in all the places you go to.» ’ ”