1 And it came to be in the fourth year of Yahoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yahuḏah, that this word came to Yirmeyahu from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, saying,
2 “Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Yisra’ĕl, and against Yahuḏah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Yoshiyahu even to this day.
3 “It could be that the house of Yahuḏah hears of all the evil which I plan to bring upon them, so that each one turns back from his evil way, and I shall pardon their wickedness and their sin.”
4 And Yirmeyahu called Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah. And Baruḵ wrote on a scroll from the mouth of Yirmeyahu, all the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 which He had spoken to him.
5 And Yirmeyahu commanded Baruḵ, saying, “I am shut up, I am unable to enter the House of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
6 “But you shall enter, and shall read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, in the hearing of the people in the House of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 on the day of fasting. And also read them in the hearing of all Yahuḏah who come from their cities.
7 “It could be that they present their supplication before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and they turn back, each one from his evil way. For great is the displeasure and the wrath that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has spoken against this people.”
8 And Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah did according to all that Yirmeyahu the naḇi commanded him, reading from the book the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in the House of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
9 And it came to be in the fifth year of Yahoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yahuḏah, in the ninth month, that they called a fast before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to all the people in Yerushalayim, and to all the people who came from the cities of Yahuḏah to Yerushalayim.
10 And Baruḵ read from the book the words of Yirmeyahu in the House of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, in the room of Gemaryahu son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard at the entry of the New Gate of the House of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, in the hearing of all the people.
11 And Miḵayahu son of Gemaryahu, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 from the book.
12 And then he went down to the sovereign’s house, into the scribe’s room. And there all the heads were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delayahu son of Shemayahu, Elnathan son of Aḵbor, Gemaryahu son of Shaphan, Tsiḏqiyahu son of Ḥananyahu, and all the heads.
13 And Miḵayahu told them all the words which he heard when Baruḵ read the book in the hearing of the people.
14 Then all the heads sent Yahuḏi son of Nethanyahu, son of Shelemyahu, son of Kushi, to Baruḵ, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.
15 And they said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it in our hearing.” Then Baruḵ read it in their hearing.
16 And it came to be, when they had heard all the words, that they looked at each other in fear, and said to Baruḵ, “We are certainly going to report all these words to the sovereign.”
17 And they asked Baruḵ, saying, “Please explain to us, how did you write all these words? From his mouth?”
18 And Baruḵ answered them, “From his mouth he spoke all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”
19 Then the heads said to Baruḵ, “Go, hide, you and Yirmeyahu, and let no one know where you are.”
20 And they went to the sovereign, into the court. But they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing of the sovereign.
21 The sovereign therefore sent Yahuḏi to bring the scroll, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Yahuḏi read it in the hearing of the sovereign and in the hearing of all the heads standing beside the sovereign.
22 And the sovereign was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning on the hearth before him.
23 Then it came to be, when Yahuḏi had read three or four columns, that the sovereign cut it with the scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was on the hearth, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire that was on the hearth.
24 Yet the sovereign and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.
25 Moreover, Elnathan, and Delayahu, and Gemaryahu pleaded with the sovereign not to burn the scroll, but he did not listen to them.
26 And the sovereign commanded Yeraḥme’ĕl son of the sovereign, and Serayahu son of Azri’ĕl, and Shelemyahu son of Aḇde’ĕl, to seize Baruḵ the scribe and Yirmeyahu the naḇi, but 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had hid them.
27 And after the sovereign had burned the scroll with the words which Baruḵ had written from the mouth of Yirmeyahu, the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came to Yirmeyahu, saying,
28 “Take another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Yahoyaqim the sovereign of Yahuḏah has burned,
29 and say to Yahoyaqim sovereign of Yahuḏah, ‘Thus said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written in it that the sovereign of Baḇel is certainly coming to destroy this land, and cause man and beast to cease from here?’ ”
30 ‘Therefore thus said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 concerning Yahoyaqim sovereign of Yahuḏah, “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of Dawiḏ, and his dead body is to be thrown out, to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
31 “And I shall punish him, and his seed, and his servants for their wickedness. And I shall bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and on the men of Yahuḏah all the evil I have spoken against them. But they did not listen.” ’ ”
32 So Yirmeyahu took another scroll and gave it to Baruḵ the scribe, son of Nĕriyah, who wrote on it from the mouth of Yirmeyahu all the words of the book which Yahoyaqim sovereign of Yahuḏah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.