12. and I delivered the deed of the purchase to BARUCH the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

13. "I commanded BARUCH before them, saying,

14. The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: 'Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.'

15. For the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel says: 'Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be bought in this land.'

16. Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to BARUCH the son of Neriah, I prayed to The LORD, saying,

4. Then Jeremiah called BARUCH the son of Neriah; and BARUCH wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all The LORD's words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.

5. Jeremiah commanded BARUCH, saying, "I am restricted. I can't go into The LORD's house.

6. Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, The LORD's words, in the ears of the people in The LORD's house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

7. It may be they will present their supplication before The LORD, and will each return from his evil way; for the LORD has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people."

8. BARUCH the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book The LORD's words in The LORD's house.

9. Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before The LORD.

10. Then BARUCH read the words of Jeremiah from the book in The LORD's house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of The LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.

11. When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all The LORD's words,

12. he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

13. Then Micaiah declared to 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, to BARUCH, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come."So BARUCH the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.

15. They said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing."So BARUCH read it in their hearing.

16. Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to BARUCH, "We will surely tell the king of all these words."

17. They asked BARUCH, saying, "Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?"

18. Then BARUCH answered them, "He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book."

19. Then the princes said to BARUCH, "You and Jeremiah go hide. Don't let anyone know where you are."

20. They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king.

21. So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.

22. Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month; and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.

23. When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

24. The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn't tear their garments.

25. Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

26. The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest BARUCH the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them.

27. Then The LORD's word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which BARUCH wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

28. "Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

29. Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'The LORD says: "You have burned this scroll, saying, "Why have you written therein, saying, 'The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?'"'

30. Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He will have no one to sit on David's throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

31. I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn't listen."'"

32. Then took Jeremiah another scroll, 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 many similar words were added to them.

3. but BARUCH the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon."

4. So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't obey The LORD's voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.

5. But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;

6. the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and BARUCH the son of Neriah;

1. The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to BARUCH the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

2. "The LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, BARUCH: