Jeremiah 36:27-29

Contemporary English Version

Jeremiah's Second Scroll

²⁷ I had told Baruch what to write on that first scroll,^[a] but King Jehoiakim^[b] had burned it. So the Lord told me ²⁸ to get another scroll and write down everything that had been on the first one. ²⁹ Then he told me to say to King Jehoiakim:

Not only did you burn Jeremiah's scroll, you had the nerve to ask why he had written that the king of Babylonia would attack and ruin the land, killing all the people and even the animals.