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.