wordes of the Lorde out of the booke in the Lordes house.
[unspec B] 9 And this was done in the fifth yere of Iehoakim the sonne of Iosias kyng of Iuda, in the ninth moneth, when it was commaunded that all the people of Hierusalem shoulde fast before the Lorde, and they also that were come frō the cities of Iuda vnto Hierusalem:
10 Then read Baruch the wordes of Ie∣remie out of the booke within the house of the Lorde, out of the treasurie of Ga∣mariah the sonne of Saphan the scribe, which is beside the hyer loft of the new doore of the Lordes house, that all the people might heare.
11 Now when Micheas the sonne of Ga∣mariah, the sonne of Saphan, heard all the wordes of the lord out of the booke,
12 He went downe to the kynges palace into the scribes chaumbers, for there all the princes were set, Elisama the scribe, Dalaiah the sonne of Semei, Elnathan the sonne of Achbor, Gamariah the sonne of Saphan, Zedekias the sonne of Hananias, with all the princes.
13 And Micheas tolde them all the wordes that he hearde Baruch reade out of the booke before the people.
14 Then all the princes sent Iehudi the [unspec C] sonne of Nathaniah the sonne of Sele∣miah, the sonne of Chusi, vnto Baruch, saying: Take in thine hande the booke whereout thou hast read before all the people, & come. So Baruch the sonne of Neriah toke the booke in his hande, and came vnto them.
15 And they sayd vnto him: Sit downe and reade the booke, that we may heare also: So Baruch read that they might heare.
16 Nowe when they had hearde all the wordes, they were abashed one vpon another, and sayde vnto Baruch: We will certifie the king of al these wordes.
17 And they examined Baruch, saying: Tell vs, howe diddest thou write all these wordes out of his mouth?
18 Then Baruch aunswered them: He spake all these wordes vnto me with his mouth, and I wrote them in the booke.
19 Then sayd the princes vnto Baruch: Go thy way, hide thee with Ieremie, so that no man knowe where ye be.
20 And they went in to the kyng to the court (but they kept the booke in the chaumber of Elizama the scribe) and tolde the kyng all the wordes, that he might heare.
21 So the kyng sent Iehudi to fet hym the booke: which he brought out of Eli∣zama [unspec D] the scribes chaumber, and Ie∣hudi read in it, that the king and all the princes whiche were about hym might heare.
22 Nowe the kyng sate in the winter house (for it was in the ninth moneth) and there was a fire before hym.
23 And when Iehudi had read three or foure leaues therof, he cut the booke in peeces with a penknife, and cast it into the fire vpon the harth, vntill the booke was al brent in the fire vpon the harth.
24 Yet no man was abashed therof, nor rent his clothes, neither the kyng hym selfe nor his seruauntes, though they hearde all these wordes.
25 Neuerthelesse, Elnathan, Dalaiah, and Gamariah besought the kyng that he woulde not burne the booke: not∣withstanding, the kyng woulde not heare them:
26 But commaunded Ierahmel the sonne of Amelech, Saraiah the sonne of Ezriel, and Selemiah the sonne of Abdeel, to lay handes vpon Baruch the scribe, and vpon Ieremie the prophete: but the Lorde kept them out of sight.
27 Nowe after that the kyng had brent the booke, and the sermons which Ba∣ruch wrote at the mouth of Ieremie, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ie∣remie, [unspec E] saying:
28 Take another booke, and write in it all the foresayde sermons that were written in the first booke whiche Ie∣hoakim the kyng of Iuda hath brent.
29 And tell Iehoakim the kyng of Iu∣da, thus saith the Lorde: Thou hast brent the booke, and thoughtest within thy selfe, Why hast thou written therin, that the kyng of Babylon shall come and make this lande waste, so that he shall make both people and cattell to be out of it?
30 Therefore thus the Lorde saith of Iehoakim the kyng of Iuda: There shall none of his generation sit vpon the throne of Dauid, his dead coarse shal∣be cast out, that the heate of the day and the frost of the night may come vp∣pon hym.
31 And I wyll visite the wickednesse of