1   And it came to passe in the fourth yeare of Ioakim, the sonne of Iosias king of Iuda: this word was made to Ieremie from our Lord, saying:

2   Take ^note a volume of a booke and thou shalt write in it al the wordes, that I haue spoken to thee against Israel and Iuda, & against al Nations since the day that I spake to thee, from the daies of Iosias euen to this day.

3   If perhaps the house of Iuda hearing al the euils, that I meane to doe vnto them, let euerie man returne from his most

wicked way: and I wil be propicious to their iniquitie, and to their sinne.

4   Ieremie therefore called Baruch the sonne of Nerias: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Ieremie al the wordes of our Lord, which he spake to him, in the volume of the booke.

5   And Ieremie commanded Baruch, saying: I am ^note shut vp, neither am I able to goe into the house of our Lord.

6   Goe thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, wherein thou hast written from my mouth the wordes of our Lord, in the hearing of al the people in the house of our Lord on the fasting day: moreouer also in the hearing of al Iuda, which come out of their cities, thou shalt read it to them:

7   if perhaps their prayer may fal in the sight of our Lord, and euerie one returne from his most wicked way: because great is the furie & indignation, which our Lord hath spoken against this people.

8   And Baruch the sonne of Nerias did according to al thinges, that Ieremie the prophet had commanded him, reading out of the volume the wordes of our Lord in the house of our Lord.

9   And it came to passe in the fifth yeare of Ioakim the sonne of Iosias the king of Iuda, in the ninth moneth: they proclaymed a fast in the sight of our Lord to al the people in Ierusalem, and to al the multitude, that was flocked together out of the cities of Iuda in Ierusalem.

10   And Baruch redde out of the wordes of Ieremie in the house of our Lord, in the treasurie of Gamarias the sonne of Saphan the scribe, in the higher court, in the entrie of the new gate of the house of our Lord, al the people hearing it.

11   And when Micheas the sonne of Gamarias the sonne of Saphan had heard al the wordes of our Lord out of the booke:

12   he went downe into the kings house to the treasurie of the scribe: and behold al the princes sate there, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaias the sonne of Semeias, and Elnathan the sonne of Achobor: and Gamarias the sonne of Saphan, & Sedecias the sonne of Hananias, and al the princes.

13   And Micheas told them al the wordes that he had heard Baruch reading out of the volume in the eares of the people.

14   Al the princes therefore sent to Baruch, Iudi the sonne of Nathanias, the sonne of Selemias, the sonne of Chusi, saying: Take in thy hand the volume, out of which thou hast redde in the hearing of the people, and come. Baruch therefore the sonne of Nerias tooke the volume in his hand, and came to them.

15   And they said to him: Sitte, & reade these thinges in our eares. And Baruch redde in

their eares.

16   Therefore when they had heard al the wordes, they were astonied euerie one toward his neighbour, and they sayd to Baruch: We must tel the king al these wordes.

17   And they asked him, saying: Tel vs how didest thou write al these wordes from his mouth.

18   And Baruch sayd to them: From his mouth he spake as it were reading vnto me al these wordes: and I wrote in a volume with inke.

19   And the princes sayd to Baruch: Goe, and be hidde thou and Ieremie, and let no man know where you are.

20   And they went to the king into the court: moreouer they layde vp the volume in the treasurie of Elisama the scribe: and they tolde al the wordes in the hearing of the king.

21   And the king sent Iudi, that he should take the volume: who taking it out of the treasurie of Elisama the scribe, redde it, the king hearing, and al the princes, that stood about the king.

22   And the king sate in the winter house in the ninth moneth: and there was an hearth set before him ful of burning coles.

23   And when Iudi had redde three or foure pages, ^note he cut it with the penknife of a scribe: and he cast it into the fire, that was vpon the hearth, til al the volume was consumed with the fyre, that was on the hearth.

24   And the king and al his seruants, that heard al these wordes, did not feare, nor rent their garments.

25   But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias gaynesaid the king, not to burne the booke: and he heard them not.

26   And the king commanded Ieremiel the sonne of Amelech, and Saraias the sonne of Ezriel, and Selemias the sonne of Abdeel, that they should apprehend Baruch the scribe, and Ieremie the Prophet: but ^note our Lord hid them.

27   And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie the Prophet, after that the king had burnt the volume and the wordes, that Baruch had written from the mouth of Ieremie, saying:

28   Againe take an other volume: and write in it al the former wordes, that were in the first volume, which Ioakim the king of Iuda hath burnt.

29   And to Ioakim the king of Iuda thou shalt say: Thus saith our Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written in it telling: The king of Babylon wil come in hast, and wil waste this land: and he wil make man and beast, to cease out of it?

30   Therefore thus saith our Lord against Ioakim the king of Iuda: ^note There shal not be of him to sitte vpon the throne of Dauid: and his carcasse shal be cast forth to the heate by day, and to the frost by night.

31   And I wil

visite against him, and against his seede, and against his seruants their iniquities, and I wil bring vpon them, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and vpon the men of Iuda al the euil, that I haue spoken to them: and they haue not heard. ^note

32   And Ieremie tooke an other volume, and gaue it to Baruch the sonne of Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the mouth of Ieremie al the wordes of the booke, which Ioakim the king of Iuda had burnt with fire: and there were added moreouer manie moe wordes, then had bene before.

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