Jeremiah 36
36:1And in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, came to pass the word of the lord to me, saying,
36:2Take to yourself a papyrus leaf scroll! and write upon it! all the words which I spoke to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations from which day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah king of Judah, and unto this day.
36:3Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the bad things which I devise to do to them; that they should turn from their wicked way; and I will be propitious to their iniquities, and to their sins.
36:4And Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah. And Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the lord of which he gave a divine message to him on a papyrus paper scroll.
36:5And Jeremiah gave charge to Baruch, saying, I am guarded, and I am not able to enter into the house of the lord.
36:6And you shall enter, and shall read with this papyrus paper scroll into the ears of the people in the house of the lord in the day of the fast. And in the ears of all Judah, of the ones coming from out of their cities, you shall read to them.
36:7Perhaps their need for mercy will fall in front of the lord, and they will turn from their evil way. For great is the rage and the anger of the lord which he spoke against this people.
36:8And Baruch son of Neriah did according to all which Jeremiah gave charge to him, to read in the scroll the words of the lord in the house of the lord.
36:9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, they held an assembly fast in front of the lord, all the people of Jerusalem, and the house of Judah.
36:10And Baruch read in the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the house of the lord, in the house of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard, in the thresholds of the new gate of the house of the lord, in the ears of all the people.
36:11And Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shaphan heard all the words of the lord from out of the scroll.
36:12And he went down unto the house of the king, unto the house of the scribe. And behold, there all the rulers sat -- Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan son of Achbor, and Gemariah son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the rulers.
36:13And Michaiah announced to them all the words which he heard Baruch reading in the scroll, in the ears of the people.
36:14And all the rulers sent to Baruch, son of Neriah, the son of Jehudi, son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, saying, The scroll in which you read by it into the ears of the people, take it into your hand and come! And Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and went down to them.
36:15And they said to him, Again read for our ears! And Baruch read in their ears.
36:16And it happened as they heard all the words, each gave advice to his neighbor, and they said to Baruch, By announcing, we should announce to the king all these words.
36:17And they asked Baruch, saying, From what place did you write all these words?
36:18And Baruch said, From the mouth of Jeremiah. He announced to me all these words, and I wrote upon a scroll.
36:19And the rulers said to Baruch, Proceed and be hid, you and Jeremiah! Let not a man know where you are!
36:20And they entered to the king, into the courtyard, and they put the scroll to guard in the house of Elishama the scribe. And they announced to the king all these words.
36:21And the king sent Jehudi to take the scroll. And he took it from out of the house of Elishama the scribe, and Jehudi read in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the rulers sitting around the king.
36:22And the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a grate of fire in front of him.
36:23And it came to pass Jehudi having read three columns or four, he shred them with the razor of the scribe, and tossed into the fire, the one upon the grate, until all the papyrus leaf vanished in the fire, the one upon the grate.
36:24And they were not amazed, and they tore not their garments -- the king and all his servants, the ones hearing all these words.
36:25And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah suggested to the king to not incinerate the papyrus paper.
36:26And he did not hearken to them. And the king gave charge to Jerahmeel son of the king, and to Saraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet -- and they were hidden.
36:27And came to pass the word of the lord to Jeremiah, after the king incinerating the papyrus paper with all the words which Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
36:28Again take to yourself another papyrus paper scroll, and write all the words being on the papyrus paper scroll which king Jehoaikim incinerated!
36:29And to Jehoaikim, the king of Judah, you shall say, Thus said the lord, You incinerated this scroll, saying, Why did you write upon it, saying, In entering the king of Babylon shall enter, and shall utterly destroy this land, and he shall obliterate from it man and beast.
36:30On account of this thus said the lord against Jehoiakim king of Judah, There will not be to him one sitting down upon the throne of David; and his decaying flesh will be for tossing in the sweltering heat of the day, and in the icy coldness of the night.
36:31And I will visit against him, and against his family, and against his children their lawlessnesses. And I will bring upon them, and upon the ones dwelling in Jerusalem, and upon the land of Judah, all the evils which I spoke to them; and they heard not.
36:32And Jeremiah took another papyrus paper scroll, and he gave it to Baruch son of Neriah the scribe. And he wrote upon it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll which Jehoiakim king of Judah incinerated in fire, and still were added to it many words as these.