Jeremiah 45:4

Thus, shalt thou say unto him Thus, saith Yahweh,—Lo! what I had built, I am pulling down, And what I had planted, I am rooting up,—And that is, all the land:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

In Context

3Thou didst say, Surely woe to me! For Yahweh hath added sorrow unto my pain,—I am weary with my moaning, And rest, have I not found!

5Wouldst, thou, then seek to secure for thyself great things? Do not seek! For behold me! bringing in calamity upon all flesh, Declareth Yahweh, Nevertheless I will give thee thine own life as a spoil, in all places whithersoever thou goest.

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Cross References

Psalms 80:8A vine out of Egypt, thou didst remove, Thou didst cast out nations, and plant it;

Isaiah 5:2And he thoroughly digged it, And gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with a precious vine, And built a tower in the midst thereof, Moreover also a wine-press, hewed he therein,—Then waited he that it should bring forth grapes. And it brought forth wild grapes:

Jeremiah 1:10See! I have set thee in charge this day, over the nations and over the kingdoms, To uproot and to break down, and to destroy and to tear in pieces,—To build and to plant.

Jeremiah 18:7The moment I speak, concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom,—to pull up and to break down, and to destroy;

Lamentations 2:6Thus hath he destroyed, like a garden, his pavilion, hath laid waste his place of assembly,—Yahweh, hath caused to be forgotten, in Zion, the appointed assembly and the sabbath, and hath spurned, in the indignation of his anger, the king and the priest.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 45:2-5

Jeremiah's Address to Baruch. ( b. c. 607.) 1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord , the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. 4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus; Behold, that which I… Read the whole commentary →

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