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‘You said, “Woe please to me, for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary in my groaning and I do not find rest.”’ Thus you will say to him: ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Look, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to pluck up, it is all the land. And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek great things,[a] for look, I am about to bring disaster upon all flesh,” declares[b] Yahweh, “but to you I will give your life as booty in all the places where you may go.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 45:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Jeremiah 45:5 Literally “a declaration of”