Jeremiah 36

vayehi bashanah harevi'it lihoyaqim ben-yoshiyyahu melekh yehudah hayah haddavar hazzeh el-yirmeyahu me'et Adonai lemor

In the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from GOD:

qakh-lekha megillat-sefer vekhatavta eleha et kol-haddevarim asher-dibbarti elekha al-yisra'el ve'al-yehudah ve'al-kol-haggoyim miyyom dibbarti elekha mime yoshiyyahu ve'ad hayyom hazzeh

Get a scroll and write upon it all the words that I have spoken to you—concerning Israel and Judah and all the nations—from the time I first spoke to you in the days of Josiah to this day.

ulay yishme'u bet yehudah et kol-hara'ah asher anokhi khoshev la'asot lahem lema'an yashuvu ish middarko hara'ah vesalakhti la'avonam ulekhattatam

Perhaps when the House of Judah hear of all the disasters I intend to bring upon them, they will turn back from their wicked ways, and I will pardon their iniquity and their sin.

vayyiqra yirmeyahu et-barukh ben-neriyyah vayyikhtov barukh mippi yirmeyahu et kol-divre Adonai asher-dibber elayw al-megillat-sefer

So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote down in the scroll, at Jeremiah’s dictation, all the words that GOD had spoken to him.

vayetsavveh yirmeyahu et-barukh lemor ani atsur lo ukhal lavo bet Adonai

Jeremiah instructed Baruch, “I am in hiding; I cannot go to the House of GOD.

uvata attah veqarata vammegillah asher-katavta-mippi et-divre Adonai be'ozne ha'am bet Adonai beyom tsom vegam be'ozne khol-yehudah habba'im me'arehem tiqra'em

But you go and read aloud GOD’s words from the scroll that you wrote at my dictation, to all the people in the House of GOD on a fast day; thus you will also be reading them to all the Judeans who come in from the towns.

ulay tippol tekhinnatam lifne Adonai veyashuvu ish middarko hara'ah ki-gadol ha'af vehakhemah asher-dibber Adonai el-ha'am hazzeh

Perhaps their entreaty will be accepted by GOD, if they turn back from their wicked ways. For great is the anger and wrath with which GOD has threatened this people.”

vayya'as barukh ben-neriyyah kekhol asher-tsivvahu yirmeyahu hannavi liqro vassefer divre Adonai bet Adonai

Baruch son of Neriah did just as the prophet Jeremiah had instructed him, about reading GOD’s words from the scroll in the House of GOD.

vayehi vashanah hakhamishit lihoyaqim ben-yoshiyyahu melekh-yehudah bakhodesh hatteshi'i qare'u tsom lifne Adonai kol-ha'am birushalai͏m vekhol-ha'am habba'im me'are yehudah birushalai͏m

In the ninth month of the fifth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people coming from Judah proclaimed a fast before GOD in Jerusalem.

vayyiqra varukh bassefer et-divre yirmeyahu bet Adonai belishkat gemaryahu ven-shafan hassofer bekhatser ha'elyon petakh sha'ar bet-Adonai hekhadash be'ozne kol-ha'am

It was then that Baruch—in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, near the new gateway of the House of GOD—read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll to all the people in the House of GOD.

vayyishma mikhayehu ven-gemaryahu ven-shafan et-kol-divre Adonai me'al hassefer

Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shaphan heard all the words of GOD [read] from the scroll,

vayyered bet-hammelekh al-lishkat hassofer vehinneh-sham kol-hassarim yoshevim elishama hassofer udelayahu ven-shemayahu ve'elnatan ben-akhbor ugemaryahu ven-shafan vetsidqiyyahu ven-khananyahu vekhol-hassarim

and he went down to the king’s palace, to the chamber of the scribe. There he found all the officials in session: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

vayyagged lahem mikhayehu et kol-haddevarim asher shamea biqro varukh bassefer be'ozne ha'am

And Micaiah told them all that he had heard as Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.

vayyishlekhu khol-hassarim el-barukh et-yehudi ben-netanyahu ben-shelemyahu ven-kushi lemor hammegillah asher qarata bah be'ozne ha'am qakhennah veyadekha valekh vayyiqqakh barukh ben-neriyyahu et-hammegillah beyado vayyavo alehem

Then all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah son of Shelemiah son of Cushi to say to Baruch, “Take that scroll from which you read to the people, and come along!” And Baruch took the scroll and came to them.

vayyomeru elayw shev na uqera'ennah be'oznenu vayyiqra varukh be'oznehem

They said, “Sit down and read it to us.” And Baruch read it to them.

vayehi keshomam et-kol-haddevarim pakhadu ish el-re'ehu vayyomeru el-barukh hagged naggid lammelekh et kol-haddevarim ha'elleh

When they heard all these words, they turned to each other in fear; and they said to Baruch, “We must report all this to the king.”

ve'et-barukh sha'alu lemor hagged-na lanu ekh katavta et-kol-haddevarim ha'elleh mippiv

And they questioned Baruch further, “Tell us how you wrote down all these words that he spoke.”

vayyomer lahem barukh mippiv yiqra elay et kol-haddevarim ha'elleh va'ani kotev al-hassefer baddeyo

He answered them, “He himself recited all those words to me, and I would write them down in the scroll in ink.”

vayyomeru hassarim el-barukh lekh hissater attah veyirmeyahu ve'ish al-yeda efoh attem

The officials said to Baruch, “Go into hiding, you and Jeremiah. Don’t let anyone know where you are!”

vayyavo'u el-hammelekh khatserah ve'et-hammegillah hifqidu belishkat elishama hassofer vayyaggidu be'ozne hammelekh et kol-haddevarim

And they went to the king in the court, after leaving the scroll in the chamber of the scribe Elishama. And they reported all these matters to the king.

vayyishlakh hammelekh et-yehudi laqakhat et-hammegillah vayyiqqakheha millishkat elishama hassofer vayyiqra'eha yehudi be'ozne hammelekh uve'ozne kol-hassarim ha'omedim me'al hammelekh

The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll and he fetched it from the chamber of the scribe Elishama. Jehudi read it to the king and to all the officials who were in attendance on the king.

vehammelekh yoshev bet hakhoref bakhodesh hatteshi'i ve'et-ha'akh lefanayw mevo'aret

Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in the winter house, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.

vayehi kiqro yehudi shalosh delatot ve'arba'ah yiqra'eha beta'ar hassofer vehashlekh el-ha'esh asher el-ha'akh ad-tom kol-hammegillah al-ha'esh asher al-ha'akh

And every time Jehudi read three or four columns, [the king] would cut it up with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the brazier.

velo fakhadu velo qare'u et-bigdehem hammelekh vekhol-avadayw hashome'im et kol-haddevarim ha'elleh

Yet the king and all his courtiers who heard all these words showed no fear and did not tear their garments;

vegam elnatan udelayahu ugemaryahu hifgi'u vammelekh levilti serof et-hammegillah velo shama alehem

moreover, Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, but he would not listen to them.

vayetsavveh hammelekh et-yerakhme'el ben-hammelekh ve'et-serayahu ven-azri'el ve'et-shelemyahu ben-avde'el laqakhat et-barukh hassofer ve'et yirmeyahu hannavi vayyastirem Adonai

The king ordered Jerahmeel, the king’s son, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But GOD hid them.

vayehi devar-Adonai el-yirmeyahu akhare serof hammelekh et-hammegillah ve'et-haddevarim asher katav barukh mippi yirmeyahu lemor

The word of GOD came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation:

shuv qakh-lekha megillah akheret ukhetov aleha et kol-haddevarim harishonim asher hayu al-hammegillah harishonah asher saraf yehoyaqim melekh-yehudah

Get yourself another scroll, and write upon it the same words that were in the first scroll that was burned by King Jehoiakim of Judah.

ve'al-yehoyaqim melekh-yehudah tomar koh amar Adonai attah sarafta et-hammegillah hazzot lemor maddua katavta aleha lemor bo-yavo melekh-bavel vehishkhit et-ha'arets hazzot vehishbit mimmennah adam uvehemah

And concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus said GOD: You burned that scroll, saying, “How dare you write in it that the king of Babylon will come and destroy this land and cause human and animal to cease from it?”

lakhen koh-amar Adonai al-yehoyaqim melekh yehudah lo-yihyeh-llo yoshev al-kisse david venivlato tihyeh mushlekhet lakhorev bayyom velaqqerakh ballayelah

Assuredly, thus said GOD concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah: He shall not have any of his line sitting on the throne of David; and his own corpse shall be left exposed to the heat by day and the cold by night.

ufaqadti alayw ve'al-zaro ve'al-avadayw et-avonam veheveti alehem ve'al-yosheve yerushalai͏m ve'el-ish yehudah et kol-hara'ah asher-dibbarti alehem velo shame'u

And I will punish him and his offspring and his courtiers for their iniquity; I will bring on them and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on all the citizenry of Judah all the disasters of which I have warned them—but they would not listen.

veyirmeyahu laqakh megillah akheret vayyittenah el-barukh ben-neriyyahu hassofer vayyikhtov aleha mippi yirmeyahu et kol-divre hassefer asher saraf yehoyaqim melekh-yehudah ba'esh ve'od nosaf alehem devarim rabbim kahemmah

So Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. And at Jeremiah’s dictation, he wrote in it the whole text of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned; and more of the like was added.