¹⁵ For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this ^(A)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it. ¹⁶ Then they will ^(B)drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and ^(C)gave it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me, to drink from it: ¹⁸ To ^(D)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^[a]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹ To ^(E)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; ²⁰ and to all the ^(F)foreign ^[b]people, all the kings of the ^(G)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(H)Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^(I)Ashdod); ²¹ To ^(J)Edom, ^(K)Moab, and the sons of ^(L)Ammon; ²² and to all the kings of ^(M)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of ^(N)the coastlands which are beyond the sea; ²³ and to ^(O)Dedan, Tema, ^(P)Buz, and all who ^(Q)trim the corners of their hair; ²⁴ and to all the kings of ^(R)Arabia and all the kings of the ^(S)foreign ^[c]people who live in the desert; ²⁵ and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(T)Elam, and all the kings of ^(U)Media; ²⁶ and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and ^(V)all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of ^[d](W)Sheshach shall drink it after them.

²⁷ “And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “^(X)Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the ^(Y)sword which I am sending among you.”’ ²⁸ And if they ^(Z)refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “^(AA)You shall certainly drink! ²⁹ For behold, I am ^(AB)beginning to inflict disaster on this city which is ^(AC)called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^(AD)I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of armies.’

³⁰ “Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,

³³ “Those ^(AK)put to death by the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the ^[g]other. They will ^(AL)not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like ^(AM)dung on the face of the ground.

Jeremiah’s Scroll Read in the Temple

36 In the ^(A)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, ² “Take a ^[a](B)scroll and write on it all the ^(C)words which I have spoken to you concerning ^(D)Israel, Judah, and all the ^(E)nations, from the ^(F)day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. ^3 (G)Perhaps the house of Judah will listen to all the disaster which I plan to carry out against them, so that every person will ^(H)turn from his evil way; then I will ^(I)forgive their wrongdoing and their sin.”

⁴ Then Jeremiah called ^(J)Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a ^[b](K)scroll ^[c]at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him. ⁵ Jeremiah then commanded Baruch, saying, “I am ^[d](L)restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord. ⁶ So you go and ^(M)read from the scroll, which you have ^(N)written ^[e]at my dictation, the words of the Lord ^[f]to the people at the Lord’s house on a day of ^(O)fasting. And you shall also read them ^[g]to all the people of Judah who come from their cities. ^7 (P)Perhaps their pleading will ^[h]come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way; for ^(Q)great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.” ⁸ So Baruch the son of Neriah acted in accordance with all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, ^(R)reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.

⁹ Now in the ^(S)fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ^(T)ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who ^(U)came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a ^(V)fast before the Lord. ¹⁰ Then Baruch read to all the people from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord in the ^(W)chamber of ^(X)Gemariah the son of Shaphan the ^(Y)scribe, in the upper courtyard, at the ^(Z)entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.

¹¹ Now when ^(AA)Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the Lord from the book, ¹² he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there—^(AB)Elishama the scribe, ^(AC)Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, ^(AD)Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. ¹³ And Micaiah ^(AE)declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people. ¹⁴ Then all the officials sent ^(AF)Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, who was the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah ^(AG)took the scroll in his hand and came to them. ¹⁵ And they said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it to us.” So Baruch ^(AH)read it to them. ¹⁶ When they had heard all the words, they turned in ^(AI)fear one to another. And they said to Baruch, “We will certainly ^(AJ)report all these words to the king.” ¹⁷ Then they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, ^(AK)how did you write all these words? Was it ^[i]at Jeremiah’s dictation?” ¹⁸ And Baruch said to them, “He ^(AL)dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.” ¹⁹ Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, ^(AM)hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”

The Scroll Is Burned

²⁰ So they came to the ^(AN)king in the courtyard, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of ^(AO)Elishama the scribe; and they reported all the words to the king. ²¹ Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi ^(AP)read it to the king as well as to all the officials who were standing beside the king. ²² Now the king was sitting in the ^(AQ)winter house in the ^(AR)ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. ²³ And when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and ^(AS)threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. ²⁴ Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words did ^(AT)not tremble in fear, nor did they ^(AU)tear their garments. ²⁵ Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah ^(AV)urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶ And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to ^(AW)seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the ^(AX)Lord hid them.

The Scroll Is Replaced

²⁷ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had ^(AY)burned the scroll and the words which ^(AZ)Baruch had written ^[j]at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying, ²⁸ “^(BA)Take again another scroll and write on it all the previous words that were ^(BB)on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned. ²⁹ And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You have ^(BC)burned this scroll, saying, ‘^(BD)Why have you written on it ^[k]that the ^(BE)king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make mankind and animals disappear from it?’” ³⁰ Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He shall have ^(BF)no one to sit on the throne of David, and his ^(BG)dead body shall be thrown out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. ³¹ I will also ^(BH)punish him, his ^[l]descendants, and his servants for their wrongdoing, and I will ^(BI)bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the people of Judah all the disaster that I have declared to them—but they did not listen.”’”

³² Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch the son of Neriah, and he ^(BJ)wrote on it at the ^[m]dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many ^[n]similar words were added to them.

Message to Baruch

45 This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to ^(A)Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had ^(B)written these words in a book ^[a]at Jeremiah’s dictation, in the ^(C)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying: ² “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says to you, Baruch: ³ ‘You said, “Oh, woe to me! For the Lord has added grief to my pain; I am ^(D)weary with my groaning and have found no rest.”’ ⁴ This is what you are to say to him: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Behold, ^(E)what I have built I am going to tear down, and what I have planted I am going to uproot, that is, all the people of the land.” ⁵ But as for you, are you ^(F)seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I am going to ^(G)bring disaster on all flesh,’ declares the Lord, ‘but I will ^(H)give your life to you as plunder in all the places where you may go.’”

Defeat of Pharaoh Foretold

46 That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet ^(I)concerning the nations.

² To ^(J)Egypt, concerning the army of ^(K)Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at ^(L)Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the ^(M)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

¹³ This is the ^[o]message which the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the ^(AL)coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to ^(AM)strike the land of Egypt:

²⁵ The Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of ^(BK)Thebes, and ^(BL)Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her ^(BM)gods and her kings, indeed, Pharaoh and those who ^(BN)trust in him. ²⁶ I shall hand them over to those who are ^(BO)seeking their lives, that is, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to his ^[w]officers. ^(BP)Afterward, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the Lord.