1. In the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
2. Take a scroll and write in it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations from the time of Josiah until today.
3. Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I intend to bring upon them, they will turn from their evil ways, and I will forgive their wrongdoing and sins.