Jeremiah 36:1-10
Jeremiah’s Scroll Read in the Temple
36Now it happened that in the afourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 2“Take a ascroll of a book and write on it all the bwords which I have spoken to you concerning cIsrael and concerning Judah and concerning all the dnations, from the eday I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. 3“aPerhaps the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I devise 1to bring on them, in order that every man will bturn from his evil way; then I will cforgive their iniquity and their sin.”
4Then Jeremiah called aBaruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a 1,bscroll 2at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh which He had spoken to him. 5And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am 1,aconfined; I cannot go into the house of Yahweh. 6“So you shall go and aread from the scroll, which you have bwritten 1at my dictation, the words of Yahweh 2in the hearing of the people in the house of Yahweh on a cfast day. And also you shall read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who come from their cities. 7“aPerhaps their supplication will 1come before Yahweh, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for bgreat is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has spoken against this people.” 8So Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, areading from the book the words of Yahweh in the house of Yahweh.
9Now it happened in the afifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the bninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who ccame from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem called for a dfast before Yahweh. 10Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh in the achamber of bGemariah the son of Shaphan the cscribe, in the upper court, at the dentry of the New Gate of the house of Yahweh, in the hearing of all the people.