Jeremiah 45:2
in Jeremiah 45“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:
KJV
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;
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This verse in Jeremiah 45
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThe Lord comforts Baruch, who was serving the prophet, writing the oracles, complaining about the hardships and feeling vexed. He commands him to bear nobly his life full of pain. He says, "If I am now uprooting, cutting off and handing over to all sorts …
This site's exposition
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
on Jeremiah 45:1-3
The chapter closes the Baruch narrative with a flashback to the very scroll-dictation of chapter 36, placed here at the book's end as a kind of epilogue to the scribe's long service. Baruch's own complaint is recorded without softening, the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow, I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest, exhaustion given its own verse the way the prophet's own confessions were given theirs across chapters 11 through 20. The bench reads the dating itself as deliberate, the book's final personal word reaching back to its darkest writing scene rather than following strict chronology.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Joining this history interwoven with the prophecy, in this way he reminds them of the earlier warning that he was commanded to say to Baruch in the days of Jehoiakim.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch. Whom he knew by name, had a great regard for, and honours with this prophecy; and, being an Israelite, both in a literal and spiritual sense, he addresses him as the God of Israel, and as being his covenant God; in whom he should put his trust, and from whom he might expect safety and protection in the worst of times; and to whose sovereign will, in all the dispensations of his providence, he ought to have humbly and patiently submitted.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּֽה־ | koh- | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַ֥ר | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֣י | ʾelohei | [the] God of | H430 → | 2601 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| עָלֶ֖יךָ | ʾaleikha | to you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| בָּרֽוּךְ׃ | barukh | O Baruch | H1263 → | 26 times |
כֹּֽה־thus
koh-H3541 →577 times
אָמַ֥רhe says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵ֣י[the] God of
ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
עָלֶ֖יךָto you
ʾaleikhaH5921 →5755 times
בָּרֽוּךְ׃O Baruch
barukhH1263 →26 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Corinthians 1:4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
it leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
- Isaiah 51:12
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17
Through
Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
it leads to
- Hebrews 2:17–18
For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement…
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Isaiah 53:4–5
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- 1 Peter 2:22
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
- 1 John 3:5
But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
- Hebrews 2:17–18
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, ON JEREMIAH 8:45.