3. then read it to the people of Judah. Perhaps they will stop sinning when they hear what terrible things I plan for them. And if they turn to me, I will forgive them.”
4. I sent for Baruch son of Neriah and asked him to help me. I repeated everything the Lord had told me, and Baruch wrote it all down on a scroll.
5. Then I said,Baruch, the officials refuse to let me go into the Lord's temple,
6. so you must go instead. Wait for the next holy day when the people of Judah come to the temple to pray and to go without eating. Then take this scroll to the temple and read it aloud.
7. The Lord is furious, and if the people hear how he is going to punish them, perhaps they will ask to be forgiven.
23-25. But every time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king would tell him to cut them off with his penknife and throw them in the fire. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, but he ignored them, and soon there was nothing left of it.The king and his servants listened to what was written on the scroll, but they were not afraid, and they did not tear their clothes in sorrow.
26. The king told his son Jerahmeel to take Seraiah and Shelemiah and to go and arrest Baruch and me. But the Lord kept them from finding us.
27. I had told Baruch what to write on that first scroll, but King Jehoiakim had burnt it. So the Lord told me
28. to get another scroll and write down everything that had been on the first one.
29. Then he told me to say to King Jehoiakim:Not only did you burn Jeremiah's scroll, you had the nerve to ask why he had written that the king of Babylonia would attack and ruin the land, killing all the people and even the animals.
30. So I, the Lord, promise that you will be killed and your body thrown out on the ground. The sun will beat down on it during the day, and the frost will settle on it at night. And none of your descendants will ever be king of Judah.
31. You, your children, and your servants are evil, and I will punish all of you. I warned you and the people of Judah and Jerusalem that I would bring disaster, but none of you have listened. So now you are doomed!
32. After the Lord finished speaking to me, I got another scroll and gave it to Baruch. Then I told him what to write, so this second scroll would contain even more than was on the scroll Jehoiakim had burnt.