{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/geneva/jer045.htm","path":"bib/cmt/geneva/jer045.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/geneva/jer045.htm","text":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599]\n(a) Who was Jeremiah's disciple, and wrote his prophecies under him.\n(b) Of which read (Jer 36:9-10).\nThou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I (c) fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.\n(c) Baruch moved with an inconsiderate zeal for Jeremiah's imprisonment, but chiefly for the destruction of the people and the temple makes this lamentation, as in (Psa 6:6).\nThus shalt thou say to him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, [that] which I have built I will (d) break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.\n(d) Meaning that God could destroy this people, because he had planted them.\nAnd seekest (e) thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give to thee for (f) a prize in all places where thou goest.\n(e) \"Do you think to have honour and credit?\" in which he shows his infirmity.\n(f) Read (Jer 21:9).","title":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes [1599]: Jeremiah: Jere...","type":"page"}