¹ I Josiases søn kong Jojakim af Judas fjerde regeringsår kom dette Ord til Jeremias fra HE EN:

² "Tag dig en Bogrulle og skriv deri alle de Ord, jeg har talet til dig om Jerusalem og Juda og om alle Folkene, fra den Dag jeg først talede til dig, fra Josiass dage og til den Dag i Dag.

³ Måske vil Judas Hus mærke sig al den Ulykke, jeg har i Sinde at gøre dem, for at de må omvende sig hver fra sin onde Vej, så jeg kan tilgive deres Brøde og Synd."

⁴ Så tilkaldte Jeremias Baruk, Nerijas Søn, og Baruk optegnede i Bogrullen efter Jeremiass Mund alle de Ord, HE EN havde talet til ham.

⁵ Derpå sagde Jeremias til Baruk: "Jeg er hindret i at gå ind i HE ENs Hus;

⁶ men gå du ind og læs HE ENs Ord op af Bogrullen, som du skrev efter min Mund, for Folket i HE ENs Hus på en Fastedag; også for alle Judæere, der kommer ind fra deres Byer, skal du læse dem.

⁷ Måske når deres klage HE ENs Åsyn, måske omvender de sig hver fra sin onde Vej; thi stor er Vreden og Harmen, som HE EN har udtalt mod dette Folk."

⁸ Og Baruk, Nerijas Søn, gjorde ganske som Profeten Jeremias pålagde ham, og oplæste HE ENs Ord af Bogen i HE ENs Hus.

⁹ I Josiass Søns, Kong Jojakim af Judas, femte egeringsår i den niende Måned udråbte alt Folket i Jerusalem og alt Folket, der fra Judas Byer kom ind til Jerusalem, en Faste for HE EN.

¹⁰ Da oplæste Baruk for alt Folket Jeremiass Ord af Bogen i HE ENs Hus, i Gemarjahus, Statsskriveren Sjafans Søns, Kammer i den øvre Forgård ved Indgangen til HE ENs Huss nye Port.

¹¹ Da nu Mika, en Søn af Sjatans Søn Gemarjahu, havde hørt HE ENs Ord oplæse af Bogen,

¹² gik han ned i Kongens Hus til Statsskriverens Kammer, hvor han traf alle Fyrsterne siddende, Statsskriveren Elisjama, Delaja Sjemajas Søn, Elnatan Akbors Søn, Gemarjahu Sjafans Søn, Zidkija Hananjas Søn og alle de andre Fyrster;

¹³ og Mika meldte dem alt, had han havde hørt, da Baruk læste Bogen op for Folket.

¹⁴ Da sendte alle Fyrsterne Jehudi, en Søn af Netanja, en Søn af Sjelemja, en Søn af Kusji, til Baruk og lod sige: "Tag Bogrullen, du læste op for Folket, og kom her ned!" Så tog Baruk, Nerijas Søn, Bogrullen og kom til dem.

¹⁵ De sagde til ham: "Sæt dig og læs den for os!" Og Baruk læste for dem.

¹⁶ Men da de havde hørt alle disse Ord, så de rædselslagne på hverandre og sagde: "Alt det må vi sige Kongen."

¹⁷ Og de spurgte Baruk: "Sig os, hvorledes du kom til at optegne alle disse Ord!"

¹⁸ Baruk svarede: "Jeremias foresagde mig alle Ordene, og jeg optegnede dem i Bogen med Blæk."

¹⁹ Så sagde Fyrsterne til Baruk: "Gå hen og gem eder, du og Jeremias, og lad ingen vide, hvor I er!"

²⁰ Efter så at have lagt Bogrullen til Side i Statsskriveren Elisjamas Kammer kom de til Kongen i hans Stue og sagde ham alt.

²¹ Så sendte Kongen Jehudi hen at hente Bogrullen i Statsskriveren Elisjamas Kammer; og Jehudi læste den op for Kongen og alle Fyrsterne, der stod om Kongen.

²² Kongen sad i Vinterhuset med et brændende Kulbækken foran sig;

²³ og hver Gang Jehudi havde læst tre fire Spalter, skar Kongen dem af med Statsskriverens Pennekniv og kastede dem på Ilden i Bækkenet, indtil hele Bogrullen var fortæret af Ilden i Bækkenet.

²⁴ Og hverken Kongen eller nogen af hans Folk blev rædselslagen eller sønderrev deres Klæder, da de hørte alle disse Ord;

²⁵ men skønt Elnafan, Delaja og Gemarjahu bad Kongen ikke brænde Bogrullen, hørte han dem ikke.

²⁶ Derpå bød Kongen Kongesønnen Jerameel, Seraja Azriels Søn og Sjelemja Abdeels Søn at gribe Skriveren Baruk og Profeten Jeremias; men HE EN skjulte dem.

²⁷ Men da Kongen havde brændt Bogrullen med de Ord, Baruk havde optegnet efter Jeremiass Mund, kom HE ENs Ord til Jeremias således:

²⁸ "Tag dig en anden Bogrulle og optegn i den alle de Ord, som stod i den første Bogrulle, den, Kong Jojakim af Juda brændte.

²⁹ Og til Kong Jojakim af Juda skal du sige: Så siger HE EN: Du brændte denne Bogrulle og sagde: Hvorfor skrev du i den: Babels Konge skal komme og ødelægge dette Land og udrydde både Folk og Fæ?

³⁰ Derfor, så siger HE EN om Kong Jojakim af Juda: Han skal ikke have nogen Mand til at sidde på Davids Trone, og hans Lig skal slænges hen og gives Dagens Hede og Nattens Kulde i Vold;

³¹ jeg vil hjemsøge ham, hans Afkom og hans Tjenere for deres Brøde og bringe over dem og Jerusalems Borgere og Judas Mænd al den Ulykke, jeg har udtalt over dem, uden at de vilde høre."

³² Så tog Jeremias en anden Bogrulle og gav den til Skriveren Baruk, Nerijas Søn; og han optegnede i den efter Jeremiass Mund alle Ordene fra den Bog, Kong Jojakim af Juda havde brændt. Og flere lignende Ord lagdes til.

¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

² "Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.

³ Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

⁴ Don't trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, The temple of Yahweh, The temple of Yahweh, are these.

⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

⁶ if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

⁷ then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.

⁸ Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

⁹ Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

¹⁰ and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?

¹¹ Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

¹² But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹³ Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:

¹⁴ therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

¹⁵ I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

¹⁶ Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

¹⁷ Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁸ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

¹⁹ Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

²¹ Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

²² For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

²³ but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

²⁴ But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

²⁵ Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

²⁶ yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

²⁷ You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

²⁸ You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁹ Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

³⁰ For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

³¹ They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.

³² Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to bury].

³³ The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

³⁴ Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.