Jeremiah 36:3-10 »Maybe the nation of Judah will hear about all the disasters that I devise to bring on them, and they will turn from their wicked ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins.«

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ »Maybe the nation of Judah will hear about all the disasters that I devise to bring on them, and they will turn from their wicked ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins.« ⁴ Then Jeremiah called Baruch, son of Neriah. Jeremiah dictated everything that Jehovah told him. Baruch wrote it all down on a scroll. ⁵ Jeremiah told Baruch: »I am no longer allowed to go to Jehovah’s Temple. ⁶ »On a day of fasting, you must read from the scroll Jehovah’s message that you wrote as I dictated. You must read it to the people in Jehovah’s Temple. You must also read it to all the people of Judah when they come from their cities. ⁷ »Maybe their prayers will come into Jehovah’s presence, and they will turn from their evil ways. Jehovah has threatened these people with his terrifying anger and fury.« ⁸ Baruch, son of Neriah, did as the prophet Jeremiah commanded him. In Jehovah’s Temple he read from the scroll everything that Jehovah had said. ⁹ In the ninth month of the fifth year of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah of Judah, a time for fasting was called. It was a time for all the people in Jerusalem and for everyone who was coming from any city in Judah to Jerusalem to fast in Jehovah’s presence. ¹⁰ Then Baruch read the scroll containing the words of Jeremiah. Baruch read it to all the people in Jehovah’s temple in the room of the scribe Gemariah, son of Shaphan, in the upper courtyard at the entrance of New Gate of Jehovah’s Temple.