1And it was in the fourth year of Yoiqim, son of Yoshiah, King of Judea, this word was on Jeremiah from before LORD JEHOVAH, saying: 2“Take to you the scroll of a Scribe and write upon it all the words that I spoke to you about Israel and about Yehuda, and about all the nations from the day that I spoke to you from the days of Yoshia and unto today 3Perhaps they of the house of Yehuda will hear all the evil that I devise to do to them, and they will return, each man from his evil way, and I shall forgive their debts and their sins

4And Jeremiah called Baruk son of Neriah, and Baruk wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of LORD JEHOVAH that he spoke to him, on the scroll of a Scribe 5And Jeremiah commanded Baruk son of Neriah and said to him: “I am shut up and I am unable to enter the house of LORD JEHOVAH 6You enter and read in the scroll what I have written from my mouth, the words of LORD JEHOVAH before the people in the house of LORD JEHOVAH in the day of the fast; also before all the people of Judea who come from their villages you shall read them 7Perhaps their prayer will fall before LORD JEHOVAH, and they will return, each man, from the evil way, and LORD JEHOVAH will cease from the evil that he spoke against them, because great is the passion and fury that LORD JEHOVAH spoke against this people 8And Baruk son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the Prophet commanded him, to read in the scroll the words of LORD JEHOVAH in the house of LORD JEHOVAH

9And it was in the fifth year of Yoiqim, son of Yoshiah, King of Judea, in the ninth month all the people who were in Jerusalem decreed fasting before LORD JEHOVAH, and Baruk read before all the people who came from the villages of Judea to Jerusalem 10And Baruk the Scribe read the words of LORD JEHOVAH that Jeremiah spoke in the house of LORD JEHOVAH in the arched chamber of Gamariah, son of Shaphan the Scribe, in the upper court in the entrance of the new gate of the house of LORD JEHOVAH before all the people

11And Mikah, son of Gamariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of LORD JEHOVAH from the scroll 12And he came down from the house of the King to the arched chamber of the Scribe, and he saw there all the Princes sitting: Elishama the Scribe and Daliah, son of Shemaiah, and Elithan, son of Abkur, and Gamaria, son of Shaphan, and Tsedeqia, son of KhananYah and all the Princes 13And Mikah revealed to them all the words that he heard when Baruk the Scribe read in the ears of the people 14And they sent all the Princes to Baruk: Yehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Shelamiah, son of Kushi and they said to him: “The scroll that you read before the people, take it in your hand and come.” And Baruk son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and he came to them 15And the Princes said to him: “Sit and read it before us.” And Baruk read it in front of them 16And when they heard the words, they were astounded, each man, along with his neighbor, and they said to Baruk: “We shall show the King all of these words” 17And they asked Baruk and they said to him: “Show us, how did you write all these words from his mouth?” 18And Baruk said to them: “From his mouth Jeremiah was speaking to me all of these words, and I was writing on the scroll in ink 19And the Princes said to Baruk: “Go and hide yourselves, you and Jeremiah, and no man shall know where you are”

20And they came to the King to the courtyard, and they put the scroll in the arched chamber of Elishama the Scribe, and they revealed all these words in front of the King 21And the King sent Yehudi that he would bring the scroll, and he took it from the arched chamber of Elishama the Scribe, and Yehudi read it in front of the King and in front of all the Princes who stand in front of the King 22And the King was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and they had set a fire before him 23And when Yehudi had read three columns and four, he cut it with the pen knife of a Scribe, and he threw it in the burning coals of the fire, and all the scroll was burned in the fire that was upon the fireplace 24And they were not afraid, and the King and all his Servants did not tear their clothes when they had heard all of these words 25Also Elithan and Gamariah and Daliah asked of the King that he would not burn the scroll in fire, and he did not listen to them 26And the King commanded Irkhameil, son of the King, and Sheraiah, son of Azrayl and Shelemiah, son of Abdeil, to seize Jeremiah the Prophet and Baruk the Scribe, and LORD JEHOVAH hid them

27And the word of LORD JEHOVAH was on Jeremiah the Prophet after the King burned the scroll and the words that Baruk wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying 28“Return, take for yourself another scroll, and write upon it all the first words that were on the scroll that Yoaqim, King of Judea, burned 29And to Yoaqim, King of Judea, say: ‘Thus says LORD JEHOVAH, You burned up this scroll and you have said: Why have you written upon it that the King of Babel shall come and he will destroy this land, and he will destroy children of man and beast from it?’ 30Because of this, thus says LORD JEHOVAH against Yoaqim King of Judea: ‘He shall not have a man who sits on his throne of David, and his corpse will be outcast in the parching heat by day, and in the cold at night 31And I shall decree against him and against his seed and against his Servants their evil, and I shall bring upon them and upon all of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon men of Judea all the evil that I spoke against them, because they did not listen to my voice’”

32And Jeremiah took another scroll and he gave it to Baruk, son of Neriah the Scribe, and he wrote upon it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words that were written in the scroll that Yoiqim King of Judea burned in fire, and he added again to them more words like them