1. In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. “Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
3. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
4. Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the Lord’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
5. Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into the Lord’s house.
6. Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the Lord’s words, in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
7. It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, and will each return from his evil way; for the Lord has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”
8. Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the Lord’s words in the Lord’s house.
9. Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.
10. Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in the Lord’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the Lord’s house, in the ears of all the people.
11. When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the Lord’s words,
12. he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
13. Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14. Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.”So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
15. They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.”So Baruch read it in their hearing.