1And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2Take thee a scroll {roll} of a book, and write in it {therein} all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 3It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. 4Then 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 unto him, upon a scroll {roll} of a book. 5And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am restrained {shut up}; I cannot go into the house of the LORD. 6Therefore, go {thou}, and read in the scroll {roll}, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the hearing {ears} of the people in the LORD's house upon the fast {fasting} day; and also thou shalt read them in the hearing {ears} of all Judah who come out of their cities. 7It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. 8And Baruch, the son of Neriah, did according to all that Jeremiah, the prophet, commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. 10Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entrance {entry} of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the hearing {ears} of all the people. 11When Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, 12Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and, lo, all the princes sat there, even 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 princes. 13Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the hearing {ears} of the people.

14Therefore, all the princes sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the scroll {roll} from which {wherein} thou hast read in the hearing {ears} of the people, and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the scroll {roll} in his hand, and came unto them. 15And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our hearing {ears}. So Baruch read it in their hearing {ears}. 16Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear {were afraid both} one to another{and other}, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. 17And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? 18Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. 19Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide {thee}, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are {be}. 20And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the scroll {roll} in the chamber of Elishama, the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing {ears} of the king.

21So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the scroll {roll}; and he took it out of Elishama, the scribe's, chamber. And Jehudi read it in the hearing {ears} of the king, and in the hearing {ears} of all the princes who stood beside the king. 22Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month; and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. 23And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns {leaves}, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll {roll} was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. 24Yet they were not afraid, nor tore {rent} their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. 25Nevertheless, Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll {roll}; but he would not hear them. 26But the king commanded Jerahmeel, the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them.

27Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll {roll}, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 28Take thee again another scroll {roll}, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll {roll}, which Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, hath burned. 29And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD, Thou hast burned this scroll {roll}, saying, Why hast thou written in it {therein}, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease in it {thence} man and beast? 30Therefore, thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 31And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not. 32Then took Jeremiah another scroll {roll}, and gave it to Baruch, the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote in it {therein} from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.