1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the Gentiles, from the day I began to speak unto thee, from the days of Josiah, unto today.
3. If peradventure the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may turn each one from his evil way; and I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4. Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
5. And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord:
6. therefore go thou, and read from the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house upon the day of fasting: and also in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. Thou shalt read them
7. if peradventure their prayer will fall into the presence of the Lord, and they shall turn each one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord has pronounced against this people.