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.”