4. So Jeremiah sent for Baruch, Neriah’s son. As Jeremiah dictated all the words that the Lord had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them in the scroll.
5. Then Jeremiah told Baruch, "I’m confined here and can’t go to the Lord’s temple.
6. So you go to the temple on the next day of fasting, and read the Lord’s words from the scroll that I have dictated to you. Read them so that all the people in the temple can hear them, as well as all the Judeans who have come from their towns.
7. If they turn from their evil ways, perhaps the Lord will hear their prayers. The Lord has threatened them with fierce anger."
8. Baruch, Neriah’s son, did everything the prophet Jeremiah instructed him: he read all the Lord’s words from the scroll in the temple.
9. In the ninth month of the fifth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, all the people in Jerusalem and all those who had come from Judean towns observed a fast for the Lord in Jerusalem.
10. Then Baruch read Jeremiah’s words from the scroll to all the people in the Lord’s temple; he read them in the chamber of Gemariah, Shaphan the scribe’s son, in the upper courtyard near the entrance of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple.
11. When Micaiah, Gemariah’s son and Shaphan’s grandson, heard all the Lord’s words from the scroll,
12. he went down to the scribes’ chamber in the royal palace. There he found all the officials meeting together: Elishama the scribe; Delaiah, Shemaiah’s son; Elnathan, Achbor’s son; Gemariah, Shaphan’s son; Zedekiah, Hananiah’s son, and all the other officials.
13. Micaiah told them all the words he heard Baruch read from the scroll before the people.
14. Then all the officials sent Jehudi, Nethaniah’s son and Shelemiah’s grandson, and Cushi’s great-grandson, to Baruch: "Take the scroll you read to the people and come with me."So Baruch, Neriah’s son, took the scroll and went to the officials.
15. They said to him, "Sit down and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.
16. When they heard all its words, they were alarmed and said to Baruch: "We must at once report all this to the king!"