Jeremiah 36

¹ And it comes to pass, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word has been unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying: ² "Take to you a roll of a book, and you have written on it all the words that I have spoken unto you concerning Israel, and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I spoke unto you, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day; ³ if so be the house of Israel do hear all the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, so that they turn back each from his evil way, and I have been propitious to their iniquity, and to their sin." ⁴ And Jeremiah calls Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch writes from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, that He has spoken unto him, on a roll of a book. ⁵ And Jeremiah commands Baruch, saying, "I am restrained, I am not able to enter the house of Yahweh; ⁶ but you have entered - and you have read in the roll that you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh, in the ears of the people, in the house of Yahweh, in the day of the fast, and also in the ears of all Judah who are coming in from their cities you do read them; ⁷ if so be their supplication does fall before Yahweh, and they turn back each from his evil way, for great [is] the anger and the fury that Yahweh has spoken concerning this people." ⁸ And Baruch son of Neriah does according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, to read in the book the words of Yahweh in the house of Yahweh. ⁹ And it comes to pass, in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh have all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who are coming in from cities of Judah to Jerusalem; ¹⁰ and Baruch reads in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the opening of the new gate of the house of Yahweh, in the ears of all the people. ¹¹ And Michaiah son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, hears all the words of Yahweh from off the book, ¹² and he goes down [to] the house of the king, unto the chamber of the scribe, and lo, there are all the heads sitting: Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan son of Acbor, and Gemariah son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the heads. ¹³ And declare to them does Micaiah all the words that he has heard, when Baruch reads in the book in the ears of the people; ¹⁴ and all the heads send unto Baruch, Jehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, saying, "The roll in which you have read in the ears of the people take in your hand, and come." And Baruch son of Neriah takes the roll in his hand and comes in unto them, ¹⁵ and they say unto him, "Sit down, we pray you, and read it in our ears", and Baruch reads in their ears, ¹⁶ and it comes to pass, when they hear all the words, they have been afraid one at another, and say unto Baruch, "We do surely declare to the king all these words." ¹⁷ And they asked Baruch, saying, "Declare, we pray you, to us, how did you write all these words - from his mouth?" ¹⁸ And Baruch said to them, "From his mouth, he pronounces unto me all these words, and I am writing on the book with ink." ¹⁹ And the heads say unto Baruch, "Go, be hidden, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you [are]." ²⁰ And they go in unto the king, to the court, and the roll they have laid up in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they declare in the ears of the king all the words. ²¹ And the king sends Jehudi to take the roll, and he takes it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and Jehudi reads it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the heads who are standing by the king; ²² and the king is sitting in the winter-house, in the ninth month, and the stove before him is burning, ²³ and it comes to pass, when Jehudi reads three or four leaves, he cuts it out with the scribe's knife, and has cast unto the fire, that [is] on the stove, till the consumption of all the roll by the fire that [is] on the stove. ²⁴ And the king and all his servants who are hearing all these words have not been afraid, nor rent their garments. ²⁵ And also Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah have interceded with the king not to burn the roll, and he has not hearkened unto them. ²⁶ And the king commands Jerahmeel son of Hammelek, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Yahweh does hide them. ²⁷ And there is a word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah - after the king's burning the roll, even the words that Baruch has written from the mouth of Jeremiah - saying: ²⁸ "Turn, take to you another roll, and write on it all the former words that were on the first roll, that Jehoiakim king of Judah burnt, ²⁹ and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah you do say: Thus said Yahweh, You have burnt this roll, saying, Wherefore have you written on it, saying, The king of Babylon surely comes in, and has destroyed this land, and caused to cease from it man and beast? ³⁰ Therefore, thus said Yahweh, concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He has none sitting on the throne of David, and his carcase is cast out to heat by day, and to cold by night; ³¹ and I have charged on him, and on his seed, and on his servants, their iniquity; and I have brought in on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto the men of Judah, all the evil that I have spoken unto them, and they hearkened not." ³² And Jeremiah has taken another roll, and gives it unto Baruch son of Neriah the scribe, and he writes on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah has burnt in the fire; and again there were added unto them many words like these.