1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 2 "Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all Yahweh’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 Yahweh’s house. 6 Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’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 Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh 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 Yahweh’s words in Yahweh’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 Yahweh. 10 Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’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 Yahweh’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 Yahweh’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 columns, 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 Yahweh hid them.
27 Then Yahweh’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, ‘Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Jeremiah took 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.
1 犹大王约西亚的儿子约雅敬第四年， 耶和华那里有这话临到耶利米， 说：
2 "你取一卷书卷来， 在上面写下我在约西亚作王的时候开始， 直到今日， 对你所说论到以色列和犹大， 以及列国的一切话。
3 或者犹大家听见我想要降给他们的一切灾祸， 各人就回转， 离开自己的恶道， 我就赦免他们的罪孽和罪恶。"
4 于是耶利米把尼利亚的儿子巴录叫了来， 巴录就从耶利米口中， 把耶和华向耶利米所说的一切话， 都写在书卷上。
5 耶利米吩咐巴录说： "我被阻止， 不能进耶和华的殿里去。
6 所以你要进去， 趁禁食的日子， 在耶和华的殿里， 向众人宣读书卷上的话， 就是你从我口中所录下耶和华的话。你要向从犹大各城来的人宣读。
7 也许他们会向耶和华恳求， 各人回转， 离开自己的恶道， 因为耶和华向这人民所说要发的怒气和烈怒是很大的。"
8 尼利亚的儿子巴录就照着耶利米先知吩咐的一切去行， 在耶和华的殿里宣读书上耶和华的话。
9 犹大王约西亚的儿子约雅敬第五年九月， 耶路撒冷的众民， 和所有从犹大各城来到耶路撒冷的人民， 都在耶和华面前宣告禁食。
10 巴录就在耶和华的殿里， 向众民宣读书上耶利米的话。那时他是在沙番的儿子书记基玛利雅的房间里， 这房间是在上院， 靠近耶和华殿里新门的入口。
11 沙番的孙子基玛利雅的儿子米该亚， 听见了书上耶和华的一切话，
12 就下到王宫， 进入书记的房间里； 所有领袖都在那里坐着， 他们是书记以利沙玛、示玛雅的儿子第莱雅、亚革波的儿子以利拿单、沙番的儿子基玛利雅、哈拿尼雅的儿子西底家和所有其余的领袖。
13 米该亚就把所听见的一切都告诉他们， 就是巴录向众人宣读那书的时候， 他所听见的。
14 于是所有的领袖差派古示的曾孙、示利米雅的孙子、尼探雅的儿子犹底， 去见巴录， 说： "请你把向众人宣读的那书卷亲自拿来。"尼利亚的儿子巴录就把书卷亲自带到他们那里。
15 他们对他说： "请坐下， 念给我们听。"巴录就向他们宣读。
16 他们听见这一切话， 就惊惧起来， 面面相觑， 对巴录说： "我们必须把这一切话禀告王。"
17 他们向巴录说： "请告诉我们， 你怎样写下这一切话， 是耶利米亲口说的吗？"
18 巴录对他们说： "这一切话是他亲口向我讲述的， 我就用墨写在书上。"
19 众领袖对巴录说： "你和耶利米都要去躲藏起来； 不要给人知道你们在什么地方。"
20 众领袖把书卷存在书记以利沙玛的房间里， 然后进内院去见王， 把这一切话都禀告给王听。
21 于是王差派犹底去把书卷拿来； 犹底就从书记以利沙玛的房间里把书卷取来， 向王和所有侍立在王左右的领袖宣读。
22 那时正是九月， 王坐在冬宫里， 在他面前有一盆炭火烧着。
23 每逢犹底宣读完三四段， 王就用书记的小刀把书割破， 丢进盆中的火里， 直到全卷都在盆中的火里烧尽了。
24 王和他所有听见这一切话的臣仆， 都不惊惧， 也不撕裂衣服。
25 虽然以利拿单、第莱雅和基玛利雅恳求王不要烧这书卷， 王却不听他们，
26 更吩咐王子耶拉篾、亚次列的儿子西莱雅和亚伯叠的儿子示利米雅， 去捉拿文士巴录和耶利米先知； 但耶和华把他们隐藏起来。
27 王烧了那载有巴录从耶利米口中录下的话的书卷以后， 耶和华的话又临到耶利米， 说：
28 "你再取一书卷来， 把犹大王约雅敬烧掉的前一书卷里原来的一切话， 都写在书卷上面。
29 论到犹大王约雅敬你要说： ‘耶和华这样说： 你烧了那书卷， 说： 你为什么在上面写着说： 巴比伦王一定来， 毁灭这地， 使地上的人畜都灭绝呢？
30 因此， 耶和华论到犹大王约雅敬这样说： 他的后代必没有人坐在大卫的王位上； 他的尸体必拋弃在外， 日间受炎热， 夜间受寒霜。
31 我必惩罚他和他的后裔， 以及他臣仆的罪孽； 我必使我对他们预告过的一切灾祸， 临到他们和耶路撒冷的居民， 以及犹大人的身上； 他们却不听从。’"
32 于是耶利米取了另一卷书卷， 交给尼利亚的儿子文士巴录； 巴录就从耶利米的口中， 把犹大王约雅敬在火中烧掉的那书上的一切话， 都写在书卷上， 还加上很多类似的话。