Liber Ieremiae

Ieremiae, chapter 36, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 36 Vulgate

   1 Et factum est in anno quarto Ioachim filii Iosiae regis Iudae, factum est verbum hoc ad Ieremiam a Domino dicens:
   2 "Tolle volumen libri et scribes in eo omnia verba, quae locutus sum tibi adversum Israel et Iudam et adversum omnes gentes a die qua locutus sum ad te ex diebus Iosiae usque ad diem hanc,
   3 si forte, audiente domo Iudae universa mala, quae ego cogito facere eis, revertatur unusquisque a via sua pessima, et propitius ero iniquitati et peccato eorum".
   4 Vocavit ergo Ieremias Baruch filium Neriae; et scripsit Baruch ex ore Ieremiae omnes sermones Domini, quos locutus est ad eum, in volumine libri.
   5 Et praecepit Ieremias Baruch dicens: "Ego impeditus sum nec valeo ingredi domum Domini.
   6 Ingredere ergo tu et lege de volumine, in quo scripsisti ex ore meo verba Domini, audiente populo in domo Domini, in die ieiunii; insuper et audiente universo Iuda, qui veniunt de civitatibus suis, leges eis,
   7 si forte cadat oratio eorum in conspectu Domini, et revertatur unusquisque a via sua pessima, quoniam magnus furor et indignatio est, quam locutus est Dominus adversus populum hunc".
   8 Et fecit Baruch filius Neriae iuxta omnia, quae praeceperat ei Ieremias propheta, legens ex volumine sermones Domini in domo Domini.
   9 Factum est autem in anno quinto Ioachim filii Iosiae regis Iudae, in mense nono, praedicaverunt ieiunium in conspectu Domini omni populo in Ierusalem et universae multitudini, quae confluxerat de civitatibus Iudae in Ierusalem.
   10 Legitque Baruch ex volumine sermones Ieremiae in domo Domini, in exedra Gamariae filii Saphan scribae in vestibulo superiore, in introitu portae Novae domus Domini, audiente omni populo.
   11 Cumque audisset Michaeas filius Gamariae filii Saphan omnes sermones Domini ex libro,
   12 descendit in domum regis ad exedram scribae; et ecce ibi omnes principes sedebant: Elisama scriba et Dalaias filius Semiae et Elnathan filius Achobor et Gamarias filius Saphan et Sedecias filius Hananiae et universi principes.
   13 Et nuntiavit eis Michaeas omnia verba, quae audivit, legente Baruch ex volumine in auribus populi.
   14 Miserunt itaque omnes principes ad Baruch Iudi filium Nathaniae filii Selemiae filii Chusi dicentes: "Volumen, ex quo legisti audiente populo, sume in manu tua et veni". Tulit ergo Baruch filius Neriae volumen in manu sua et venit ad eos.
   15 Et dixerunt ad eum: "Sede et lege haec in auribus nostris"; et legit Baruch in auribus eorum.
   16 Igitur cum audissent omnia verba, obstupuerunt unusquisque ad proximum suum; et dixerunt ad Baruch: "Nuntiare debemus regi omnes sermones istos".
   17 Et interrogaverunt Baruch dicentes: "Indica nobis, quomodo scripsisti omnes sermones istos ex ore eius".
   18 Dixit autem eis Baruch: "Ex ore suo loquebatur ad me omnes sermones istos, et ego scribebam in volumine atramento".
   19 Et dixerunt principes ad Baruch: "Vade et abscondere, tu et Ieremias, et nemo sciat, ubi sitis".
   20 Et ingressi sunt ad regem in atrium, porro volumen deposuerunt in exedra Elisamae scribae; et nuntiaverunt audiente rege omnes sermones.
   21 Misitque rex Iudi, ut sumeret volumen; qui, tollens illud de exedra Elisamae scribae, legit audiente rege et universis principibus, qui stabant circa regem.
   22 Rex autem sedebat in domo hiemali in mense nono, et posita erat arula coram eo plena prunis;
   23 cumque legisset Iudi tres pagellas vel quattuor, scidit eas scalpello scribae et proiecit in ignem, qui erat super arulam, donec consumeretur omne volumen igni, qui erat in arula.
   24 Et non timuerunt neque sciderunt vestimenta sua rex et omnes servi eius, qui audierunt universos sermones istos.
   25 Verumtamen Elnathan et Dalaias et Gamarias instanter rogaverunt regem, ne combureret librum, et non audivit eos.
   26 Et praecepit rex Ierameel filio regis et Saraiae filio Azriel et Selemiae filio Abdeel, ut comprehenderent Baruch scribam et Ieremiam prophetam; abscondit autem eos Dominus.
   27 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Ieremiam, postquam combusserat rex volumen et sermones, quos scripserat Baruch ex ore Ieremiae, dicens:
   28 "Rursum tolle volumen aliud et scribe in eo omnes sermones priores, qui erant in primo volumine, quod combussit Ioachim rex Iudae.
   29 Et super Ioachim regem Iudae dices: Haec dicit Dominus: Tu combussisti volumen illud dicens: "Quare scripsisti in eo annuntians: Certe veniet rex Babylonis et vastabit terram hanc et cessare faciet ex illa hominem et iumentum?".
   30 Propterea haec dicit Dominus contra Ioachim regem Iudae: Non erit ex eo, qui sedeat super solium David, et cadaver eius proicietur ad aestum per diem et ad gelu per noctem;
   31 et visitabo contra eum et contra semen eius et contra servos eius iniquitates suas; et adducam super eos et super habitatores Ierusalem et super viros Iudae omne malum, quod locutus sum ad eos, et non audierunt".
   32 Ieremias autem tulit volumen aliud et dedit illud Baruch filio Neriae scribae; qui scripsit in eo ex ore Ieremiae omnes sermones libri, quem combusserat Ioachim rex Iudae igni; et insuper additi sunt multi sermones similes illis.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
   2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
   3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
   4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
   5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
   6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
   7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
   8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
   9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
   10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
   11 ¶ When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
   12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
   13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
   14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
   15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
   16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
   17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
   18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
   19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
   20 ¶ And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
   21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
   22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
   23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
   24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
   25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
   26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
   27 ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
   28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
   29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
   30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
   31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
   32 ¶ Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.