Jer 36 | ABEn | STEP | And in the [ 2 year 1 fourth] of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, came to pass the word of the lord to me, saying,

Jeremiah 36

CHAPTER 36 The Scroll against Jerusalem

1 And in the [²year ¹fourth] of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, came to pass the word of the lord to me, saying, 2 Take 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. 3 Perhaps [⁴will hear ¹the ²house ³of Judah] all the bad things which I devise to do to them; that they should turn from [³way ¹their ²wicked]; and I will be propitious to their iniquities, and to their sins. 4 And 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. 5 And Jeremiah gave charge to Baruch, saying, I am guarded, and I am not able to enter into the house of the lord. 6 And 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. 7 Perhaps [²will fall ¹their need for mercy] in front of the lord, and they will turn from [³way ¹their ²evil]. For great is the rage and the anger of the lord which he spoke against this people. 8 And [⁴did ¹Baruch ²son ³of Neriah] according to all which [²gave charge to him ¹Jeremiah], to read in the scroll the words of the lord in the house of the lord.

The Reading of the Scroll

9 And it came to pass in the [²year ¹fifth] of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, in the [²month ¹ninth], they held an assembly fast in front of the lord, all the people of Jerusalem, and the house of Judah. 10 And 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 [²courtyard ¹upper], in the thresholds [³gate ⁴of the ⁵house ⁶of the lord ¹of the ²new], in the ears of all the people. 11 And [⁶heard ¹Micaiah ²son ³of Gemariah ⁴son ⁵of Shaphan] all the words of the lord from out of the scroll. 12 And 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. 13 And [²announced ³to them ¹Michaiah] all the words which he heard [²reading ¹Baruch] in the scroll, in the ears of the people. 14 And [⁴sent ¹all ²the ³rulers] 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 [⁴took ¹Baruch ²son ³of Neriah] the scroll in his hand, and went down to them. 15 And they said to him, Again read for our ears! And Baruch read in their ears. 16 And it happened as they heard all the words, [²gave advice ¹each] to his neighbor, and they said to Baruch, By announcing, we should announce to the king all these words. 17 And they asked Baruch, saying, From what place did you write all these words? 18 And Baruch said, From the mouth of Jeremiah. He announced to me all these words, and I wrote upon a scroll. 19 And [³said ¹the ²rulers] to Baruch, Proceed and be hid, you and Jeremiah! Let not a man know where you are!

The Burning of the Scroll

20 And they entered to the king, into the courtyard, and [²the ³scroll ¹they put] to guard in the house of Elishama the scribe. And they announced to the king all these words. 21 And [³sent ¹the ²king] 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. 22 And the king was sitting in [²house ¹the winter] in [²month ¹the ninth], with a grate of fire in front of him. 23 And 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 [⁴vanished ¹all ²the ³papyrus leaf] in the fire, the one upon the grate. 24 And they were not amazed, and they tore not their garments -- the king and all his servants, the ones hearing all these words. 25 And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah suggested to the king to not incinerate the papyrus paper. 26 And he did not hearken to them. And [³gave charge ¹the ²king] 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.

Jeremiah Rewrites the Scroll

27 And came to pass the word of the lord to Jeremiah, after the [²incinerating ¹king] the papyrus paper with all the words which Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 28 Again take to yourself [²papyrus paper scroll ¹another], and write all the words being on the papyrus paper scroll which [³incinerated ¹king ²Jehoaikim]! 29 And 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 [³shall enter ¹the king ²of Babylon], and shall utterly destroy this land, and he shall obliterate from it man and beast. 30 On 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. 31 And 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. 32 And Jeremiah took [²papyrus paper scroll ¹another], 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 [⁴incinerated ¹Jehoiakim ²king ³of Judah] in fire, and still were added to it [²words ¹many] as these.