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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 36
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joakim the
son of Josias king of Juda, that this word came to Jeremias
by the Lord, saying:
Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in
it all the words that I have spoken to thee against
Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the
day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even
to this day.
If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear all the
evils that I purpose to do unto them, that they may
return every man from his wicked way: and I will forgive
their iniquity, and their sin.
So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the
Lord, which he spoke to him, upon the roll of a book.
And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying: I am shut up,
and cannot go into the house of the Lord.
Go thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, which
thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord,
in the hearing of all the people in the house of the
Lord on the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them
in the hearing of all Juda that come out of their cities:
If so be they may present their supplication before
the Lord, and may return every one from his wicked way:
for great is the wrath and indignation which the Lord
hath pronounced against this people.
And Baruch the son of Nerias did according to all that
Jeremias the prophet had commanded him, reading out
of the volume the words of the Lord in the house of
the Lord.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the
son of Josias king of Juda, in the ninth month, that
they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people
in Jerusalem, and to all the people that were come together
out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem.
And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremias
in the house of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias
the son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in
the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord,
in the hearing of all the people.
And when Micheas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan
had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord,
He went down into the king's house to the secretary's
chamber: and behold all the princes sat there, Elisama
the scribe, and Dalaias the son of Semeias, and Elnathan
the son of Achobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan,
and Sedecias the son of Hananias, and all the princes.
And Micheas told them all the words that he had heard
when Baruch read out of the volume in the hearing of
the people.
Therefore all the princes sent Judi the son of Nathanias,
the son of Selemias, the son of Chusi, to Baruch, saying:
Take in thy hand the volume in which thou hast read
in the hearing of the people, and come. So Baruch the
son of Nerias took the volume in his hand, and came
to them.
And they said to him: Sit down and read these things
in our hearing. And Baruch read in their hearing.
And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon
one another with astonishment, and they said to Baruch:
We must tell the king all these words.
And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write
all these words from his mouth.
And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced
all these words as if he were reading to me: and I wrote
in a volume with ink.
And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and hide thee, both
thou and Jeremias, and let no man know where you are.
And they went in to the king into the court: but they
laid up the volume in the chamber of Elisama the scribe:
and they told all the words in the hearing of the king.
And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume:
who bringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe,
read it in the hearing of the king, and of all the princes
that stood about the king.
Now the king sat in the winter house, In the ninth month:
and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.
And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it
with the penknife, and he cast it into the Are, that
was upon the hearth, till all the volume was consumed
with the fire that was on the hearth.
And the king and all his servants that heard all these
words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.
But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to
the king, not to burn. the book: and he heard them not.
And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech,
and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son
of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremias
the prophet: but the Lord hid them.
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet,
after that the king had burnt the volume, and the words
that Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremias,
saying:
Take thee again another volume: and write in it all
the former words that were in the first volume which
Joakim the king of Juda hath burnt.
And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus
saith the Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying:
Why hast thou written therein, and said: The king of
Babylon shall come speedily, and shall lay waste this
land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king
of Juda: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of
David: and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat
by day, and to the frost by night.
And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants,
for their iniquities, and I will bring upon them, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men
of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced against
them, but they have not heard.
And Jeremias took another volume, and gave it to Baruch
the son of Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the
mouth of Jeremias all the words of the book which Joakim
the king of Juda had burnt with fire: and there were
added besides many more words than had been before. |
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