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Jeremiah 36:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you about Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, until today.

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However, a scroll was found in Ecbatana, the stronghold in the province of Media, containing the following text: “Memorandum.

Oh, that I had one to hear my case: here is my signature: let the Almighty answer me! Let my accuser write out his indictment!

Sacrifice and offering you do not want; you opened my ears. Holocaust and sin-offering you do not request;

Then the Lord said to Moses: Write this down in a book as something to be remembered, and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.

The Lord said to me: Take a large tablet, and inscribe on it with an ordinary stylus, “belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz,”

Today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, To uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.

Then the Lord extended his hand and touched my mouth, saying to me, See, I place my words in your mouth!

Listen to the word of the Lord, house of Jacob! All you clans of the house of Israel,

Since the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day—that is, twenty-three years—the word of the Lord has come to me and I spoke to you untiringly, but you would not listen.

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write down on a scroll all the words I have spoken to you.

The princes immediately sent Jehudi, son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to Baruch with the order: “The scroll you read in the hearing of the people—bring it with you and come.” Scroll in hand, Baruch, son of Neriah, went to them.

“Yes, he would dictate all these words to me,” Baruch answered them, “while I wrote them down with ink in the scroll.”

Each time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, he would cut off the piece with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire in the brazier.

And against Jehoiakim, king of Judah, say this: Thus says the Lord: You are the one who burned that scroll, saying, “Why did you write on it: Babylon’s king shall surely come and ravage this land, emptying it of every living thing”?

So you yourself must go. On a fast day in the hearing of the people in the Lord’s house, read the words of the Lord from the scroll you wrote at my dictation; read them also to all the people of Judah who come up from their cities.

The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch, son of Neriah, when he wrote on a scroll words from Jeremiah’s own mouth in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Jeremiah wrote down on one scroll the disaster that would befall Babylon; all these words were written against Babylon.

It was then I saw a hand stretched out to me; in it was a written scroll.

Though I write for him my many instructions, they are considered like a stranger’s.

When Moses had finished writing out on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.’”




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