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Jeremiah

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1 And 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, 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write there­in all the words that I have spo­ken unto thee against Is­rael, and against Ju­dah, and against all the na­tions, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josi­ah, even unto this day. 3 It 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. 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 unto him, upon a roll of a book. 5 And Jeremi­ah com­mand­ed Baruch, say­ing, I am shut up; I can­not go into the house of the LORD: 6 There­fore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast writ­ten from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the peo­ple in the LORD'S house upon the fast­ing day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Ju­dah that come out of their cities. 7 It 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. 8 And 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. 9 And 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 that came from the cities of Ju­dah unto Jerusalem. 10 Then 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 en­try of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the peo­ple. 11 When Micha­iah the son of Gemari­ah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, 12 Then 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. 13 Then Micha­iah de­clared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the peo­ple. 14 There­fore 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 roll where­in thou hast read in the ears of the peo­ple, and come. So Baruch the son of Ne­r­i­ah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. 15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. 16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and oth­er, and said unto Baruch, We will sure­ly tell the king of all these words. 17 And they asked Baruch, say­ing, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? 18 Then Baruch an­swered them, He pro­nounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremi­ah; and let no man know where ye be. 20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the cham­ber of El­ishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. 21 So the king sent Je­hu­di to fetch the roll: and he took it out of El­ishama the scribe's cham­ber. And Je­hu­di read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood be­side the king. 22 Now the king sat in the win­ter­house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burn­ing be­fore him. 23 And it came to pass, that when Je­hu­di had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, un­til all the roll was con­sumed in the fire that was on the hearth. 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their gar­ments, neither the king, nor any of his ser­vants that heard all these words. 25 Nev­er­the­less El­nathan and De­la­iah and Gemari­ah had made in­ter­ces­sion to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. 26 But 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. 27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremi­ah, af­ter that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremi­ah, say­ing, 28 Take thee again an­oth­er roll, and write in it all the for­mer words that were in the first roll, which Je­hoiakim the king of Ju­dah hath burned. 29 And thou shalt say to Je­hoiakim king of Ju­dah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, say­ing, Why hast thou writ­ten there­in, say­ing, The king of Baby­lon shall cer­tain­ly come and de­stroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 30 There­fore 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. 31 And 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. 32 Then took Jeremi­ah an­oth­er roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Ne­r­i­ah; who wrote 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.