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.
8. And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.
9. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people of Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
10. Then Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the Lord’s house, in the ears of all the people.
11. When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord,