Jeremiah 36:1-21 ▼

1 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2 |Take a scroll, and write on 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 purpose to do to them; that they may return every man 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 words of the LORD, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll.

5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, |I am shut up; I can't go into the house of the LORD:

6 therefore you go, and read from the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house on the fast day; and 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 petition before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.|

8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

9 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that 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 from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, 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 from the scroll all the words of the LORD,

12 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room: and look, all the officials were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the officials.

13 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.

14 Therefore all the officials 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 ears.| So Baruch read it in their ears.

16 Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, |We will surely tell the king of all these words.|

17 They asked Baruch, saying, |Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?|

18 Then Baruch answered them, |He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink on the scroll.|

19 Then the officials said to Baruch, |Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.|

20 They went in to the king into the court; but they had put the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.

21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the officials who stood beside the king.