1 Die woord wat die profeet Jeremia aan Barug, die seun van Ner¡a, meegedeel het toe hy hierdie woorde uit die mond van Jeremia in 'n boek geskrywe het, in die vierde jaar van Jojakim, die seun van Jos¡a, die koning van Juda:

2 So spreek die HERE, die God van Israel, aangaande jou, o Barug!

3 Jy sê: Wee my tog, want die HERE het kommer aan my smart toegevoeg; ek is moeg van my gesug en vind geen rus nie!

4 So moet jy vir hom sê: So spreek die HERE: Kyk, wat Ek gebou het, breek Ek self af; en wat Ek geplant het, ruk Ek self uit; en dit betref die hele aarde.

5 En sou jy vir jou groot dinge soek? Soek dit nie; want kyk, Ek bring onheil oor alle vlees, spreek die HERE; maar Ek sal jou siel vir jou as buit gee in al die plekke waarheen jy sal gaan.

1 The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,

2 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:

3 You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.

4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

5 And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.