Jeremiah 45:3

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Jeremiah 45:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

2 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

3 You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

4 Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

5 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.”

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Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 15:11

The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.

Jeremiah 15:12

Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?

Jeremiah 15:13

Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.

Jeremiah 15:14

Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

Jeremiah 15:15

You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 15:17

I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

Jeremiah 15:20

Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 15:21

I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

Jeremiah 20:7

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

Jeremiah 20:11

But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

Jeremiah 20:12

O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

Jeremiah 20:13

Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.

Jeremiah 20:14

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:15

Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.

Jeremiah 20:16

May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

Jeremiah 20:17

because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

Psalms 120:5

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

Genesis 42:37

Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

Numbers 11:11

So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

Numbers 11:13

Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

Numbers 11:14

I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

Numbers 11:15

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

Joshua 7:7

“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

Joshua 7:8

O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

Job 16:11

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Job 16:12

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

Job 16:13

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 23:2

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Psalms 42:7

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Lamentations 3:3

Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

Lamentations 3:4

He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Lamentations 3:6

He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:9

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3:10

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

Lamentations 3:11

He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

Lamentations 3:12

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

Lamentations 3:13

He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

Lamentations 3:14

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:16

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

Lamentations 3:17

My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Lamentations 3:18

So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:32

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Jeremiah 8:18

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

Psalms 27:13

Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Psalms 77:3

I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Psalms 77:4

You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

Proverbs 24:10

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

Lamentations 1:13

He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Galatians 6:9

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

2 Thessalonians 3:13

But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.

Hebrews 12:3

Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Hebrews 12:5

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.