Jeremiah 45 Cross References - ISV

¹ God’s Message to BaruchThis is the message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Neriah’s son Baruch, when in the fourth year of the reign of Josiah’s son King Jehoiakim of Judah had, at Jeremiah’s dictation, written these words in a scroll: ² “This is what the LORD God of Israel says to you, Baruch: ³ ‘You have said, “How terrible for me, for the LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I’m weary with my groaning, and I haven’t found rest.”’ ⁴ Say this to him: ‘This is what the LORD says: “Look! What I’ve built I’m about to tear down, and what I’ve planted I’m about to pull up—and this will involve the entire land.” ⁵ Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don’t seek them. Indeed, I’m about to bring disaster on all flesh,’ declares the LORD, ‘but your life will be spared wherever you go.’”

⁵ Jehoiakim’s Reign; Nebuchadnezzar’s First Capture of JerusalemJehoiakim was 25 years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, but he practiced what the LORD his God considered to be evil.

¹ The Irrevocable Judgment on JudahThis message from the LORD came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Josiah’s son Jehoiakim, king of Judah. (This was also the first year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.)

¹ Jeremiah is ArrestedIn the beginning of the reign of Josiah’s son Jehoiakim, king of Judah, this message came from the LORD:

¹² and I gave the deed of purchase to Neriah’s son Baruch, the grandson of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

¹⁶ Jeremiah’s Prayer“After I had given the deed of purchase to Neriah’s son Baruch, I prayed to the LORD:

¹ Jeremiah’s Scroll Read in the TempleIn the fourth year of the reign of Josiah’s son King Jehoiakim of Judah, this message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

⁴ Jeremiah summoned Neriah’s son Baruch and at Jeremiah’s dictation, Baruch wrote on the scroll all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him.

⁸ So Neriah’s son Baruch did just as Jeremiah the prophet instructed him, reading the words of the LORD from the scroll at the LORD’s Temple.
⁹ In the ninth month of the fifth year of the reign of Josiah’s son Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a fast was proclaimed in the LORD’s presence in Jerusalem for all the people of Jerusalem, as well as all the people who were coming from the towns of Judah.

¹⁴ Then all the officials sent Nethaniah’s son Jehudi, (who was also the grandson of Shelemiah and Cushi’s great-grandson), to Baruch, who said, “Take the scroll that you read to the people and come.” Neriah’s son Baruch took the scroll with him and went to them.
¹⁵ They told him, “Please sit down and read it to us.” So Baruch read it to them. ¹⁶ When they heard all the words, they turned to one another in fear, saying to Baruch, “We must report all these things to the king.” ¹⁷ Then they asked Baruch, “Please tell us how you wrote all the words. Did Jeremiah dictate them all?”
¹⁸ Baruch answered them, “Yes, Jeremiah dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in the scroll with ink.”

²⁶ The king ordered his son Jerahmeel, Azriel’s son Seraiah, and Abdeel’s son Shelemiah to get Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD had hidden them.

³² Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Neriah’s son Baruch the scribe. He wrote on it, at Jeremiah’s dictation, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned in the fire. He also added to them many similar words.

³ Indeed, Neriah’s son Baruch is inciting you against us in order to give us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, or to take us into exile to Babylon.”
⁴ So Kareah’s son Johanan, all the military leaders, and all the people did not obey the instructions given by the LORD to remain in the land of Judah. ⁵ Kareah’s son Johanan and all the military leaders took the entire remnant of Judah that had returned from all the nations where they had been scattered to settle in the land of Judah— ⁶ the young men, the women, the children, the daughters of the king, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Ahikam’s son Gedaliah, the grandson of Shaphan, along with Jeremiah the prophet and Neriah’s son Baruch.

⁹ In all their distress he wasn’t distressed, but the angel of his presence saved them; in his acts of love and in his acts of pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

⁷ But go and tell his disciples—especially Peter—that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.”

⁴ who comforts us in all our suffering, so that we may be able to comfort others in all their suffering, as we ourselves are being comforted by God.

⁶ Yet God, who comforts those who feel miserable, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

¹⁸ Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. Instead, we have one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet he never sinned.

³⁴ So Jacob tore his clothes, dressed himself in sackcloth, and then mourned many days for his son. ³⁵ All his sons and daughters showed up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He kept saying, “Leave me alone! I’ll go down to the next world, still mourning for my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

³⁶ Their father Jacob told them, “You’re causing me to lose my children! Joseph is gone. Now Simeon is gone, and you’re planning to take Benjamin, too. Everything’s going against me!”
³⁷ “Feel free to put my own two sons to death,” Reuben responded to his father, “if I don’t bring him back to you. Trust me—I’ll bring him back to you.”
³⁸ But Jacob replied, “My son isn’t going back with you, since his brother is dead and he’s the only one left. If something should harm him as you travel, then it’ll be death for me and my sad, gray hair!”

¹¹ so he asked the LORD, “Why did you bring all this trouble to your servant? Why haven’t I found favor in your eyes? After all, you’re putting the burden of this entire people on me! ¹² Did I conceive this people or give birth to them, so that you would tell me to carry them near my heart like a wet nurse carries a suckling baby to the land that you promised to their forefathers? ¹³ Where am I going to get meat to give this people? After all, they’re crying in front of me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ ¹⁴ I cannot carry this whole nation! The burden is too heavy for me! ¹⁵ If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I’ve found favor in your eyes, because I don’t want to keep staring at all of this misery!”

⁷ “Lord GOD,” Joshua asked, “Why have you brought this people across the Jordan River? To hand us over to the Amorites so we’ll be destroyed? Wouldn’t it have been better for us to be content to settle on the other side of the Jordan? ⁸ Lord, what am I to say, now that Israel has run away from its enemies? ⁹ The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of this, will surround us, and eliminate us from the earth! Then what will you do about your great reputation?”

¹¹ God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. ¹² “He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target. ¹³ His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.

² “I’m still complaining bitterly today; my hand is heavy because of groaning.

⁶ I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

¹³ I believe that I will see the LORD’s goodness in the land of the living.

⁷ Deep waters call out to what is deeper still; at the roar of your waterfalls all your breakers and your waves swirled over me.

³ I am exhausted from calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes are strained from looking for God.

³ I remember God, and I groan; I meditate, while my spirit grows faint. Interlude ⁴ You kept my eyes open; I was troubled and couldn’t speak.

⁵ How terrible for me, that I am an alien in Meshech, that I reside among the tents of Kedar!

¹⁰ If you grow weary when times are troubled, your strength is limited.

¹⁸ Jeremiah Mourns for His PeopleIncurable sorrow has overwhelmed me, my heart is sick within me.

¹ The LORD’s Sorrow for His People “Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed.

¹⁰ Jeremiah’s ComplaintHow terrible for me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of strife and contention for the whole land! I’ve neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
¹¹ God’s Answer to Jeremiah’s ComplaintThe LORD said, “Have I not set you free for a good purpose? Have I not intervened for you with your enemies in times of trouble and times of distress? ¹² “Can anyone break iron— iron from the north—or bronze? ¹³ “I’ll give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder, for free, because of all your sins throughout your territory. ¹⁴ I’ll make you serve your enemies in a land you don’t know, for my anger has started a fire that will burn against you.”
¹⁵ Jeremiah’s Revised ComplaintYou are aware— LORD, remember me, pay attention to me, and vindicate me in front of those who pursue me. You are patient— don’t take me away. Know that I suffer insult because of you! ¹⁶ Your words were found, and I consumed them. Your words were joy and my hearts delight, because I bear your name, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies. ¹⁷ I didn’t sit in the company of those who have fun, and I didn’t rejoice. Because of your hand on me, I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation. ¹⁸ Why is my pain unending and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
God’s Answer to Jeremiah’s Revised Complaint You are like a deceptive brook, whose waters cannot be depended on. ¹⁹ Therefore, this is what the LORD says: “If you repent, I’ll take you back and you will stand before me. If you speak what is worthwhile, instead of what is worthless, then you will be my spokesman. People will turn to you, but you aren’t to turn to them. ²⁰ I’ll make you a fortified wall of bronze to this people. They’ll fight against you, but they won’t prevail against you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you,” ²¹ So I’ll deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

⁷ Jeremiah’s Complaint to the LORDYou deceived me, LORD, and I’ve been deceived. You overpowered me, and you prevailed. I’ve become a laughing stock all day long, and everyone mocks me. ⁸ Indeed, as often as I speak, I cry out, and shout, “Violence and destruction!” For this message from the LORD has caused me constant reproach and derision. ⁹ When I say, “I won’t remember the LORD, nor will I speak in his name anymore, then there is this burning fire in my heart. It is bound up in my bones, I grow weary of trying to hold it in, and I cannot do it! ¹⁰ Indeed, I hear many people whispering, “Terror on every side. Denounce him, let’s denounce him!” All my close friends watch my steps and say, “Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him.” ¹¹ But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, those who pursue me will stumble and won’t prevail. They’ll be put to great shame, when they don’t succeed. Their everlasting disgrace won’t be forgotten. ¹² LORD of the Heavenly Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the inner motives and the heart, let me see you take vengeance on them, for I’ve committed my case to you. ¹³ Sing to the LORD, give praise to the LORD! For he saves the life of the poor from the hand of the wicked.
¹⁴ Jeremiah Curses the Day of His BirthLet the day on which I was born be cursed. Don’t let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, “A baby boy has been born to you,” making him very happy. ¹⁶ May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and a battle cry at noon, ¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant. ¹⁸ Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to finish my life living in shame?

¹³ He sent fire from on high, making it penetrate my bones. He stretched out a net at my feet, forcing me to turn back. He made me desolate; I’m fainting all day long.

²² May all of their wickedness come to your attention, and deal with them as you have done with me because of all my transgressions. For I am constantly groaning, and my heart is faint.

¹ The LORD’s Purposes for Affliction I am a man familiar with affliction— under the rod of God’s anger. ² He has led me—brought me into darkness, not into light. ³ He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long. ⁴ He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones. ⁵ He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering. ⁶ He has forced me to live in darkness, like those who are long dead. ⁷ He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me. ⁸ Indeed, when I cry out, calling for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven. ¹⁰ He is like a bear that lies in wait for me, a lion in hiding. ¹¹ He forced me off my path, tearing me to pieces and making me desolate. ¹² He bent his bow, aiming at me with his arrow. ¹³ He caused his war arrows to pierce my vital organs. ¹⁴ I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood. ¹⁶ He broke my teeth on gravel, covering me with dust. ¹⁷ You have removed peace from my life; I have forgotten what prosperity is. ¹⁸ So I say, “My strength is gone as is my hope in the LORD.” ¹⁹ Remember my affliction and homelessness— wormwood and gall!

³² though he causes grief, his compassion abounds according to his gracious love.

¹ Treasure in Clay JarsTherefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy shown to us, we do not get discouraged.

¹⁶ Life in an Earthly TentThat’s why we are not discouraged. No, even if outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are being renewed each and every day.

⁹ Let’s not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest—if we do not give up.

¹³ Brothers, do not get tired of doing what is right.

³ The Father Disciplines UsThink about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up. ⁴ In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. ⁵ You have forgotten the encouragement that is addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not think lightly of the Lord’s discipline or give up when you are corrected by him.

⁶ Then the LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and he was deeply grieved about that. ⁷ So the LORD said, “I will annihilate these human beings whom I’ve created from the earth, including people, animals, crawling things, and flying creatures, because I’m grieving that I made them.”

⁸ You uprooted a vine from Egypt, and drove out nations to transplant it. ⁹ You cleared the ground so that its roots grew and filled the land. ¹⁰ Mountains were covered by its shadows, and the mighty cedars by its branches. ¹¹ Its branches spread out to the Mediterranean Sea and its shoots to the Euphrates River. ¹² Why did you break down its walls so that those who pass by pluck its fruits? ¹³ Wild boars of the forest gnaw at it, and creatures of the field feed on it. ¹⁴ God of the Heavenly Armies, return! Look down from heaven and see. Show care toward this vine. ¹⁵ The root that your right hand planted, the shoot that you tended for yourself, ¹⁶ was burned with fire, cut off, and destroyed on account of your rebuke.

² He plowed its land and cleared it of stones. Then he planted it with the choicest vines, built a watchtower in the middle of it, and dug a wine vat in it; He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only wild ones.” ³ “So now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, won’t you please, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more could I do in my vineyard, that I haven’t already done? When I expected it to produce good grapes, why did it yield wild ones? ⁵ “Now, let me tell you, won’t you please, what I’m going to do to my vineyard. “I’m going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I’ll break down its wall, and it will be trampled. ⁶ I’ll make it a wasteland, and it won’t be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I’ll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it.” ⁷ For the vineyard of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden in which he delights. He looked for justice, but saw only bloodshed; he searched for righteousness, but heard only an outcry!

¹⁰ See, today I’ve appointed you to prophesy about nations and kingdoms, to pull up and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”

¹⁷ The LORD of the Heavenly Armies who planted you has called for disaster on you because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, has provoked me by burning incense to Baal.”

⁷ At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it. ⁸ But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I’ll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it. ⁹ At another moment I may speak about a nation or kingdom to build it or plant it. ¹⁰ But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I’ll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.

²⁸ Just as I’ve watched over them to pull up, tear down, overthrow, destroy, and bring disaster, so I’ll watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

¹² God looked at the earth, observing how corrupt its population had become, because the entire human race had corrupted itself.

²⁶ But Elisha responded, “Didn’t my heart break as the man was turning from his chariot to greet you? Is now the time to receive money? To receive clothes? And olive groves, vineyards, sheep, oxen, servants, or female attendants?

¹⁶ For with fire and with his sword the LORD will proceed to judgment on all humanity, and those slain by the LORD will be many.”

⁹ Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine, and by the plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live. He will save his life as a spoil of war.

²⁶ all the kings of the north near and far, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. The king of Sheshak will drink after all the others.

² “This is what the LORD says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine, and by the plague, but the one who goes over to the Chaldeans will live. His life will be spared, and he will live.’

¹⁸ For I’ll surely deliver you, and you won’t fall by the sword. Your life will be spared because you trusted me,” declares the LORD.’”

⁸ “Just you wait!” declares the LORD. “The day will come when I stand up as a prosecutor, for I am determined to assemble the nations and to gather the kingdoms, in order to pour out my indignation upon them— all of my fierce anger. All the earth will be consumed by the fire of my jealousy.

²⁵ Stop Worrying
“That’s why I’m telling you to stop worrying about your life—what you will eat or what you will drink—or about your body—what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn’t it, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren’t you? ²⁷ Can any of you add a single hour to the length of your life by worrying? ²⁸ And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies in the field and how they grow. They don’t work or spin yarn, ²⁹ but I tell you that not even Solomon in all of his splendor was clothed like one of them. ³⁰ Now if that is the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, won’t he clothe you much better—you who have little faith?
³¹ “So don’t ever worry by saying, ‘What are we going to eat?’ or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?’ ³² because it is the unbelievers who are eager for all those things. Surely your heavenly Father knows that you need all of them!

¹⁶ Live in harmony with each other. Do not be arrogant, but associate with humble people. Do not think that you are wiser than you really are.

²⁶ In view of the present crisis, I think it is prudent for a man to stay as he is. ²⁷ Have you become committed to a wife? Stop trying to get released from your commitment. Have you been freed from your commitment to a wife? Stop looking for one. ²⁸ But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience trouble in this life, and I want to spare you from that.
²⁹ This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none, ³⁰ and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they did not own a thing, ³¹ and those who use the things in the world as though they were not dependent on them. For the world in its present form is passing away.
³² I want you to be free from concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, that is, about how he can please the Lord.

⁶ Of course, godliness with contentment does bring a great profit. ⁷ Nothing to this world we bring; from it take we nothing. ⁸ With food to eat and clothes to wear; content we are in everything.
⁹ But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

⁵ Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, “I will never leave you or abandon you.”