1 When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch:2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:3 You said, 'Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.'4 But the LORD has told me to say to you, 'This is what the LORD says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.5 Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.'"

1 Verbum quod locutus est Jeremias propheta ad Baruch filium Neri, cum scripsisset verba hc in libro ex ore Jeremi, anno quarto Joakim filii Josi regis Juda, dicens : 2 Hc dicit Dominus Deus Isral ad te, Baruch : 3 Dixisti : V misero mihi ! quoniam addidit Dominus dolorem dolori meo : laboravi in gemitu meo, et requiem non inveni. 4 Hc dicit Dominus : Sic dices ad eum : Ecce quos dificavi, ego destruo : et quos plantavi, ego evello, et universam terram hanc : 5 et tu quris tibi grandia ? Noli qurere, quia ecce ego adducam malum super omnem carnem, ait Dominus, et dabo tibi animam tuam in salutem in omnibus locis ad qucumque perrexeris.