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You go and read the words of the Lord that you wrote at my dictation from the scroll. Read them[a] to[b] the people at the Lord’s Temple on the fast day. Also read them to all the people of Judah who are coming from their towns. Perhaps their pleas for help will come to the Lord’s attention, and each of them will turn from his evil lifestyle in light of the great anger and wrath that the Lord has declared against this people.” So Neriah’s son Baruch did just as Jeremiah the prophet instructed him, reading the words of the Lord from the scroll at the Lord’s Temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 36:6 The Heb. lacks Read them
  2. Jeremiah 36:6 Lit. scroll in the hearing of