36 Now in the fourth year of Ye·hoiʹa·kim son of Jo·syʹah, the king of Judah, this word came to Yeremyah from Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, saying: 2 “Take a scroll and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Isra'Al and Judah and all the nations, from the first day I spoke to you in the days of Jo·syʹah to this day. 3 Perhaps when those of the house of Judah hear of all the calamity that I intend to bring on them, they may turn back from their evil ways, so that I may forgive their error and their sin.”
4 Yeremyah then called Barʹuch the son of Ne·ryʹah, and Yeremyah dictated all the words that Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} had spoken to him, and Barʹuch wrote them in the scroll. 5 Then Yeremyah commanded Barʹuch: “I am confined and unable to enter the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}. 6 So you are the one who must go in and read aloud the words of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} from the scroll that you wrote at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of the people at the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} on the day of a fast; thus you will read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their cities. 7 Perhaps their request for favor will reach Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, and they will turn back, each one from his evil ways, for great is the anger and the wrath that Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} has declared against this people.”
8 So Barʹuch the son of Ne·ryʹah did all that Yeremyah the prophet had commanded him; he read aloud from the scroll the words of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} at the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}.
9 Now in the fifth year of Ye·hoiʹa·kim son of Jo·syʹah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Yerushalom and all the people who came into Yerushalom from the cities of Judah proclaimed a fast before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}. 10 Barʹuch then read aloud from the scroll the words of Yeremyah at the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, in the chamber of Gem·a·ryʹah the son of Shaʹphan the copyist, in the upper courtyard, at the entrance of the new gate of the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, in the hearing of all the people.
11 When Mi·cayʹah the son of Gem·a·ryʹah the son of Shaʹphan heard all the words of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} from the scroll, 12 he went down to the house of the king, to the secretary’s chamber. All the princes were sitting there: A·lishʹa·ma the secretary, De·laʹyah the son of She·mayʹah, Al·naʹthan the son of Achʹbor, Gem·a·ryʹah the son of Shaʹphan, Zed·e·kyʹah the son of Han·a·nyʹah, and all the other princes. 13 Mi·cayʹah told them all the words that he had heard when Barʹuch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.
14 Then all the princes sent Ye·huʹdi the son of Neth·a·nyʹah the son of Shel·e·myʹah the son of Cushʹi to Barʹuch, saying: “Come and bring with you the scroll from which you read in the hearing of the people.” Barʹuch the son of Ne·ryʹah took the scroll in his hand and went in to them. 15 They said to him: “Sit down, please, and read it aloud to us.” So Barʹuch read it to them.
16 Now as soon as they heard all the words, they looked at one another in dread, and they said to Barʹuch: “We must certainly tell the king all these words.” 17 And they asked Barʹuch: “Tell us, please, how you wrote all these words. Was it at his dictation?” 18 Barʹuch replied to them: “He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them down with ink in this scroll.” 19 The princes said to Barʹuch: “Go and hide yourselves, you and Yeremyah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”
20 Then they went in to the king, to the courtyard, and deposited the scroll in the chamber of A·lishʹa·ma the secretary, and they told the king everything they had heard.
21 So the king sent Ye·huʹdi out to get the scroll, and he brought it from the chamber of A·lishʹa·ma the secretary. Ye·huʹdi began to read it in the hearing of the king and of all the princes standing by the king. 22 The king was sitting in the winter house, in the ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. 23 After Ye·huʹdi had read three or four columns, the king would cut off that portion with the secretary’s knife and pitch it into the fire that was burning in the brazier, until the entire scroll ended up in the fire that was in the brazier. 24 And they felt no dread; neither the king nor all his servants who heard all these words ripped their garments apart. 25 Although Al·naʹthan, De·laʹyah, and Gem·a·ryʹah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he did not listen to them. 26 Further, the king commanded Ye·rahʹme·Al the son of the king, Se·rayʹah the son of Azʹri·Al, and Shel·e·myʹah the son of Abʹde·Al to seize Barʹuch the secretary and Yeremyah the prophet, but Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} kept them concealed.
27 And the word of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} again came to Yeremyah after the king had burned up the scroll containing the words that Barʹuch had written at Yeremyah’s dictation, saying: 28 “Take another scroll and write on it all the same words that were on the first scroll, which King Ye·hoiʹa·kim of Judah burned up. 29 And you should say against King Ye·hoiʹa·kim of Judah, ‘This is what Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} says: “You have burned up this scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it: “The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and empty it of man and beast”?’ 30 Therefore this is what Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} says against King Ye·hoiʹa·kim of Judah, ‘He will have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body will be left exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night. 31 I will call him and his descendants and his servants to account for their error, and I will bring on them and on the inhabitants of Yerushalom and on the men of Judah all the calamity that I have spoken against them, but they did not listen.’”’”
32 Yeremyah then took another scroll and gave it to Barʹuch the son of Ne·ryʹah, the secretary, and at Yeremyah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that King Ye·hoiʹa·kim of Judah had burned in the fire. And many more words like those were added.