1 When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,2 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;3 It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.4 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,5 And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.7 And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.8 Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.9 Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.10 And the rulers of Judah, hearing of these things, came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord, and took their seats by the new door of the Lord's house.11 Then the priests and the prophets said to the rulers and to all the people, The right fate for this man is death; for he has said words against this town in your hearing.12 Then Jeremiah said to all the rulers and to all the people, The Lord has sent me as his prophet to say against this house and against this town all the words which have come to your ears.13 So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.14 As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion.15 Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.16 Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.17 Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,18 Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.19 Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.20 And there was another man who was a prophet of the Lord, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; he said against this town and against this land all the words which Jeremiah had said:21 And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt.23 And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.24 But Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gave Jeremiah his help, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to be put to death.

1 In principio regni Joakim filii Josi regis Juda, factum est verbum istud a Domino, dicens : 2 Hc dicit Dominus : Sta in atrio domus Domini, et loqueris ad omnes civitates Juda, de quibus veniunt ut adorent in domo Domini universos sermones quos ego mandavi tibi ut loquaris ad eos : noli subtrahere verbum, 3 si forte audiant, et convertantur unusquisque a via sua mala, et pniteat me mali quod cogito facere eis propter malitiam studiorum eorum. 4 Et dices ad eos : Hc dicit Dominus : Si non audieritis me, ut ambuletis in lege mea, quam dedi vobis, 5 ut audiatis sermones servorum meorum prophetarum, quos ego misi ad vos de nocte consurgens, et dirigens, et non audistis : 6 dabo domum istam sicut Silo, et urbem hanc dabo in maledictionem cunctis gentibus terr. 7 Et audierunt sacerdotes, et prophet, et omnis populus, Jeremiam loquentem verba hc in domo Domini. 8 Cumque complesset Jeremias, loquens omnia qu prceperat ei Dominus ut loqueretur ad universum populum, apprehenderunt eum sacerdotes, et prophet, et omnis populus, dicens : Morte moriatur. 9 Quare prophetavit in nomine Domini, dicens : Sicut Silo erit domus hc, et urbs ista desolabitur eo quod non sit habitator ? Et congregatus est omnis populus adversus Jeremiam in domo Domini. 10 Et audierunt principes Juda verba hc, et ascenderunt de domo regis in domum Domini, et sederunt in introitu port domus Domini nov. 11 Et locuti sunt sacerdotes et prophet ad principes, et ad omnem populum, dicentes : Judicium mortis est viro huic, quia prophetavit adversus civitatem istam, sicut audistis auribus vestris. 12 Et ait Jeremias ad omnes principes, et ad universum populum, dicens : Dominus misit me ut prophetarem ad domum istam, et ad civitatem hanc, omnia verba qu audistis. 13 Nunc ergo bonas facite vias vestras, et studia vestra, et audite vocem Domini Dei vestri, et pnitebit Dominum mali quod locutus est adversum vos. 14 Ego autem ecce in manibus vestris sum : facite mihi quod bonum et rectum est in oculis vestris. 15 Verumtamen scitote et cognoscite quod, si occideritis me, sanguinem innocentem tradetis contra vosmetipsos, et contra civitatem istam, et habitatores ejus : in veritate enim misit me Dominus ad vos, ut loquerer in auribus vestris omnia verba hc. 16 Et dixerunt principes et omnis populus ad sacerdotes et ad prophetas : Non est viro huic judicium mortis, quia in nomine Domini Dei nostri locutus est ad nos. 17 Surrexerunt ergo viri de senioribus terr, et dixerunt ad omnem ctum populi, loquentes : 18 Michas de Morasthi fuit propheta in diebus Ezechi regis Juda, et ait ad omnem populum Juda, dicens : [Hc dicit Dominus exercituum :Sion quasi ager arabitur,et Jerusalem in acervum lapidum erit,et mons domus in excelsa silvarum.] 19 Numquid morte condemnavit eum Ezechias rex Juda, et omnis Juda ? numquid non timuerunt Dominum, et deprecati sunt faciem Domini, et pnituit Dominum mali quod locutus fuerat adversum eos ? Itaque nos facimus malum grande contra animas nostras. 20 Fuit quoque vir prophetans in nomine Domini, Urias filius Semei de Cariathiarim, et prophetavit adversus civitatem istam, et adversus terram hanc, juxta omnia verba Jeremi. 21 Et audivit rex Joakim, et omnes potentes et principes ejus, verba hc, et qusivit rex interficere eum : et audivit Urias, et timuit, fugitque et ingressus est gyptum. 22 Et misit rex Joakim viros in gyptum, Elnathan filium Achobor, et viros cum eo, in gyptum, 23 et eduxerunt Uriam de gypto, et adduxerunt eum ad regem Joakim, et percussit eum gladio, et projecit cadaver ejus in sepulchris vulgi ignobilis. 24 Igitur manus Ahicam filii Saphan fuit cum Jeremia, ut non traderetur in manus populi, et interficerent eum.