Jeremiah 45:5 meaning and explanation

But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”

Jeremiah 45:5, Berean Standard Bible

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Baruch was Jeremiah's scribe, writing the prophet's words on a scroll in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim, a time of national crisis. In verse 3 he had poured out his grief, worn out with groaning.

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