² “Take a ^(A)scroll of a book and ^(B)write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against ^(C)all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of ^(D)Josiah even to this day.

² “Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying: ‘Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.

^3 (A)“From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the Lord has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, ^(B)but you have not listened.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that ^(B)I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”

⁹ Now when I looked, there was ^(A)a hand stretched out to me; and behold, ^(B)a scroll of a book was in it.

⁶⁰ So Jeremiah ^(A)wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.

²³ And it happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the king cut it with the scribe’s knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

⁶ You go, therefore, and read from the scroll which you have written ^[a]at my instruction, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord’s house on ^(A)the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities.

⁹ behold, I will send and take ^(A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and ^(C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. ¹⁰ Moreover I will ^[a]take from them the ^(D)voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^(E)the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. ¹¹ And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy ^(F)years.

¹² ‘Then it will come to pass, ^(G)when ^[b]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ^(H)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. ¹³ So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. ^14 (I)(For many nations ^(J)and great kings shall ^(K)be served by them also; ^(L)and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’ ”