&#8220;Go to the Rechabite community.<n id="1" /> Invite them to come into one of the side rooms<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and offer them some wine to drink.&#8221;

Then they asked Baruch, &#8220;How did you come to write all these words? Do they actually come from Jeremiah&#8217;s mouth?&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama, the royal secretary, for safekeeping.<n id="1" /> Then they went to the court and reported everything<n id="2" /> to the king.<n id="3" />

Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah after Jehoiakim had burned the scroll containing what Jeremiah had spoken and Baruch had written down.<n id="1" />

There at Riblah the king of Babylon had Zedekiah&#8217;s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. The king of Babylon also had all the nobles of Judah put to death.

So they took all their troops and went to fight against Ishmael son of Nethaniah. They caught up with him near the large pool<n id="1" /> at Gibeon.

When all the people that Ishmael had taken captive saw<n id="1" /> Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers with him, they were glad.

Pray that the <sc>Lordsc> your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.&#8221;

He will demolish the sacred pillars in the temple of the sun<n id="1" /> in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over<n id="1" /> again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">But I will strip everything away from Esau&#8217;s descendants.p> <p class="poetry">I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide.p> <p class="poetry">Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed.p> <p class="poetry">Not one of them will be left!p>

<p class="poetry">I have opened up the place where my weapons are stored.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have brought out the weapons for carrying out my wrath.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For I, the Lord <sc>Godsc> who rules over all,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">have work to carry out in the land of Babylonia.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">But the one who will rescue them<n id="1" /> is strong.p> <p class="poetry">He is known as the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will strongly<n id="3" /> champion their cause.p> <p class="poetry">As a result<n id="4" /> he will bring peace and rest to the earth,p> <p class="poetry">but trouble and turmoil<n id="5" /> to the people who inhabit Babylonia.<n id="6" />p>

They captured him and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah<n id="1" /> in the territory of Hamath and he passed sentence on him there.

The king of Babylon had Zedekiah&#8217;s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. He also had all the nobles of Judah put to death there at Riblah.

I will give you leaders<n id="1" /> who will be faithful to me.<n id="2" /> They will lead you with knowledge and insight.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Hear, you nations!p> <p class="poetry">Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I have made you like a metal assayerp> <p class="poetry">to test my people like ore.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You are to observe themp> <p class="poetry">and evaluate how they behave.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Jeremiah:<n id="1" />