WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.980 in a year. Today's reading is from Jeremiah chapters 00:00:09.980 --> 00:00:16.679 15, 25, 36, and 45. Chapter 15 Then the Lord 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.420 said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel stood before 00:00:19.420 --> 00:00:22.179 me, my mind would not be favorable toward this 00:00:22.179 --> 00:00:25.199 people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:28.059 go forth. And it shall be, if they say to you, 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.739 Where should we go? Then you shall tell them, 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:34.299 Thus says the Lord, Such as are for death to 00:00:34.299 --> 00:00:37.439 death, and such as are for the sword to the sword, 00:00:37.619 --> 00:00:39.960 and such as are for the famine to the famine, 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.960 and such as are for the captivity to the captivity. 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:46.520 And I will appoint over them four forms of destruction, 00:00:46.780 --> 00:00:49.979 says the Lord, the sword to slay, the dogs to 00:00:49.979 --> 00:00:52.380 drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:56.000 of the earth to devour and destroy. I will hand 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.590 them over to trouble. to all the kingdoms of 00:00:58.590 --> 00:01:01.130 the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, 00:01:01.229 --> 00:01:03.649 king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem. 00:01:04.030 --> 00:01:06.870 For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or 00:01:06.870 --> 00:01:09.750 who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to 00:01:09.750 --> 00:01:12.709 ask, How are you doing? You have forsaken me, 00:01:12.810 --> 00:01:15.629 says the Lord. You have gone backward. Therefore 00:01:15.629 --> 00:01:17.950 I will stretch out my hand against you and destroy 00:01:17.950 --> 00:01:21.069 you. I am weary of relenting, and I will winnow 00:01:21.069 --> 00:01:23.670 them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the 00:01:23.670 --> 00:01:26.409 land. I will bereave them of children. I will 00:01:26.409 --> 00:01:29.489 destroy my people, since they do not return from 00:01:29.489 --> 00:01:32.150 their ways. Their widows will be increased to 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:34.909 me more than the sand of the seas. I will bring 00:01:34.909 --> 00:01:36.829 against them, against the mother of the young 00:01:36.829 --> 00:01:40.409 men, a plunderer at noonday. I will cause anguish 00:01:40.409 --> 00:01:43.510 and terror to fall on them suddenly. She languishes, 00:01:43.590 --> 00:01:47.049 who has born seven. She has breathed her last. 00:01:47.370 --> 00:01:50.530 Her son has gone down, while it was yet day. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:53.840 she has been ashamed and confounded and the remnant 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.299 of them i will deliver to the sword before their 00:01:56.299 --> 00:02:00.579 enemies says the lord woe is me my mother that 00:02:00.579 --> 00:02:03.219 you have borne me a man of strife and a man of 00:02:03.219 --> 00:02:05.659 contention to the whole earth i have neither 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:08.900 lent for interest nor have men lent to me for 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:11.979 interest every one of them curses me The Lord 00:02:11.979 --> 00:02:15.020 said, Surely it will be well with your remnant. 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:18.020 Surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with 00:02:18.020 --> 00:02:21.259 you in a time of adversity and in a time of affliction. 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.520 Can anyone break iron, the northern iron and 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.240 the bronze? Your wealth and your treasures I 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.219 will give as plunder without price, because of 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:33.139 all your sins throughout your territories, and 00:02:33.139 --> 00:02:35.699 I will make you cross over with your enemies 00:02:35.699 --> 00:02:38.729 into a land which you do not know. For a fire 00:02:38.729 --> 00:02:41.389 is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon 00:02:41.389 --> 00:02:43.969 you. O Lord, you know, remember me and visit 00:02:43.969 --> 00:02:47.330 me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. 00:02:47.430 --> 00:02:50.150 In your enduring patience do not take me away. 00:02:50.430 --> 00:02:53.590 Know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke. 00:02:53.849 --> 00:02:56.629 Your words were found, and I ate them. And your 00:02:56.629 --> 00:02:59.469 word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. 00:02:59.629 --> 00:03:02.530 For I am called by your name, O Lord God of hosts. 00:03:02.770 --> 00:03:05.430 I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, 00:03:05.490 --> 00:03:08.770 nor did I rejoice. I sat alone because of your 00:03:08.770 --> 00:03:11.270 hand, for you have filled me with indignation. 00:03:11.330 --> 00:03:14.810 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, 00:03:15.030 --> 00:03:18.229 which refuses to be healed? Will you surely be 00:03:18.229 --> 00:03:21.569 to me like an unreliable stream, as waters that 00:03:21.569 --> 00:03:25.050 fail? Therefore thus says the Lord, If you return, 00:03:25.189 --> 00:03:27.810 then I will bring you back. You shall stand before 00:03:27.810 --> 00:03:30.370 me, if you take out the precious from the vial. 00:03:30.469 --> 00:03:33.610 You shall be as my mouth. Let them return to 00:03:33.610 --> 00:03:36.550 you, but you must not return to them. And I will 00:03:36.550 --> 00:03:38.889 make you to this people a fortified bronze wall, 00:03:39.030 --> 00:03:41.370 and they will fight against you, but they shall 00:03:41.370 --> 00:03:44.090 not prevail against you. For I am with you to 00:03:44.090 --> 00:03:46.969 save you and deliver you, says the Lord. I will 00:03:46.969 --> 00:03:48.909 deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and 00:03:48.909 --> 00:03:51.069 I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible. 00:03:52.909 --> 00:03:56.349 Chapter 25 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning 00:03:56.349 --> 00:03:58.629 all the people of Judah in the fourth year of 00:03:58.629 --> 00:04:01.650 Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which 00:04:01.650 --> 00:04:03.629 was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of 00:04:03.629 --> 00:04:06.189 Babylon. which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to 00:04:06.189 --> 00:04:08.349 all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants 00:04:08.349 --> 00:04:11.409 of Jerusalem, saying, From the thirteenth year 00:04:11.409 --> 00:04:14.289 of Josiah the son of Ammon, king of Judah, even 00:04:14.289 --> 00:04:16.910 to this day, this is the twenty -third year in 00:04:16.910 --> 00:04:19.449 which the word of the Lord has come to me. And 00:04:19.449 --> 00:04:21.949 I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, 00:04:22.209 --> 00:04:24.750 but you have not listened. And the Lord has sent 00:04:24.750 --> 00:04:27.689 to you all his servants, the prophets, rising 00:04:27.689 --> 00:04:30.170 early and sending them, but you have not listened 00:04:30.170 --> 00:04:33.779 nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, Repent 00:04:33.779 --> 00:04:37.139 now, everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, 00:04:37.139 --> 00:04:39.259 and dwell in the land that the Lord has given 00:04:39.259 --> 00:04:42.540 to you and your fathers forever and ever. Do 00:04:42.540 --> 00:04:45.100 not go after other gods to serve them and worship 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:47.680 them, and do not provoke me to anger with the 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:50.000 works of your hands, and I will not harm you. 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:52.699 Yet you have not listened to me, says the Lord, 00:04:52.860 --> 00:04:55.399 that you might provoke me to anger with the works 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.519 of your hands to your own hurt. Therefore thus 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.899 says the Lord of hosts, because you have not 00:05:00.899 --> 00:05:03.569 heard my words, Behold, I will send and take 00:05:03.569 --> 00:05:05.689 all the families of the north, says the Lord, 00:05:05.829 --> 00:05:08.089 and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, 00:05:08.230 --> 00:05:11.129 will bring them against this land, against its 00:05:11.129 --> 00:05:13.550 inhabitants, and against these nations all around, 00:05:13.769 --> 00:05:16.430 and will utterly destroy them and make them an 00:05:16.430 --> 00:05:19.509 astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 00:05:19.689 --> 00:05:22.410 Moreover, I will take from them the voice of 00:05:22.410 --> 00:05:24.870 mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of 00:05:24.870 --> 00:05:27.399 the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. the 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.040 sound of the millstones, and the light of the 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.720 lamp. And this whole land shall be a desolation 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.639 and an astonishment, and these nations shall 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.500 serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then 00:05:39.500 --> 00:05:41.500 it will come to pass, when seventy years are 00:05:41.500 --> 00:05:43.800 completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.680 and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.279 their iniquity, says the Lord, and I will make 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.220 it a perpetual desolation. So I will bring on 00:05:52.220 --> 00:05:54.759 that land all my words which I have pronounced 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:57.300 against it, all that is written in this book, 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.360 which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.740 the nations. For many nations and great kings 00:06:02.740 --> 00:06:05.480 shall be served by them also, and I will repay 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:07.879 them according to their deeds and according to 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.800 the works of their own hands. For thus says the 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.519 Lord God of Israel to me, Take this wine cup 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.459 of fury from my hand and cause all the nations 00:06:16.459 --> 00:06:19.029 to whom I send you to drink it. and they will 00:06:19.029 --> 00:06:21.750 drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword 00:06:21.750 --> 00:06:24.430 that I will send among them. Then I took the 00:06:24.430 --> 00:06:26.629 cup from the Lord's hand and made all the nations 00:06:26.629 --> 00:06:29.550 drink to whom the Lord had sent me, Jerusalem 00:06:29.550 --> 00:06:32.509 and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, 00:06:32.709 --> 00:06:35.589 to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a 00:06:35.589 --> 00:06:38.910 hissing, and a curse, as it is this day. Pharaoh 00:06:38.910 --> 00:06:41.389 king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and 00:06:41.389 --> 00:06:44.170 all his people, all the mixed multitude, all 00:06:44.170 --> 00:06:46.569 the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of 00:06:46.569 --> 00:06:49.009 the land of the Philistines, namely Ashkelon, 00:06:49.050 --> 00:06:52.670 Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom, 00:06:52.790 --> 00:06:55.550 Moab, and the people of Ammon, all the kings 00:06:55.550 --> 00:06:58.470 of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings 00:06:58.470 --> 00:07:01.930 of the coastlands which are across the sea, Dedan, 00:07:01.990 --> 00:07:05.889 Tima, Boz, and all who are in the farthest corners, 00:07:06.129 --> 00:07:08.829 all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of 00:07:08.829 --> 00:07:10.769 the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert, 00:07:10.949 --> 00:07:13.910 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.779 And all the kings of the Medes, all the kings 00:07:16.779 --> 00:07:19.560 of the north, far and near, one with another, 00:07:19.779 --> 00:07:22.120 and all the kingdoms of the world which are on 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.000 the face of the earth. Also the king of Shishak 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.300 shall drink after them. Therefore you shall say 00:07:28.300 --> 00:07:30.839 to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.079 of Israel, Drink and be drunk and vomit. Fall 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.879 and rise no more, because of the sword which 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.720 I will send among you. And it shall be, if they 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:42.100 refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:44.810 then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord 00:07:44.810 --> 00:07:48.389 of hosts, You shall certainly drink. For behold, 00:07:48.550 --> 00:07:50.970 I will begin to bring calamity on the city which 00:07:50.970 --> 00:07:53.750 is called by my name. And should you be utterly 00:07:53.750 --> 00:07:56.870 unpunished, you shall not be unpunished. For 00:07:56.870 --> 00:07:59.290 I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants 00:07:59.290 --> 00:08:02.129 of the earth, says the Lord of hosts. Therefore 00:08:02.129 --> 00:08:04.850 prophesy against them all these words, and say 00:08:04.850 --> 00:08:07.649 to them, The Lord will roar from on high, and 00:08:07.649 --> 00:08:10.529 utter his voice from his holy habitation. He 00:08:10.529 --> 00:08:13.069 will roar mightily against his fold. He will 00:08:13.069 --> 00:08:15.769 give a shout as those who tread the grapes against 00:08:15.769 --> 00:08:18.269 all the inhabitants of the earth. A noise will 00:08:18.269 --> 00:08:20.689 come to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has 00:08:20.689 --> 00:08:23.569 a controversy with the nations. He will plead 00:08:23.569 --> 00:08:26.529 his case with all flesh. He will give those who 00:08:26.529 --> 00:08:29.430 are wicked to the sword, says the Lord. Thus 00:08:29.430 --> 00:08:32.070 says the Lord of hosts, Behold, disaster shall 00:08:32.070 --> 00:08:35.350 go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind 00:08:35.350 --> 00:08:38.429 shall be raised up from the farthest parts of 00:08:38.429 --> 00:08:41.230 the earth. And at that day the slain of the Lord 00:08:41.230 --> 00:08:44.090 shall be from one end of the earth even to the 00:08:44.090 --> 00:08:47.009 other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented 00:08:47.009 --> 00:08:50.090 or gathered or buried. They shall become refuse 00:08:50.090 --> 00:08:53.830 on the ground. Wail, shepherds, and cry. Roll 00:08:53.830 --> 00:08:56.429 about in the ashes, you leaders of the flock, 00:08:56.590 --> 00:08:59.350 for the days of your slaughter and your dispersions 00:08:59.350 --> 00:09:02.070 are fulfilled. You shall fall like a precious 00:09:02.070 --> 00:09:04.409 vessel, and the shepherds will have no way to 00:09:04.409 --> 00:09:07.110 flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.700 A voice of the cry of the shepherds and a wailing 00:09:10.700 --> 00:09:13.240 of the leaders to the flock will be heard, for 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.659 the Lord has plundered their pasture and the 00:09:15.659 --> 00:09:18.220 peaceful dwellings are cut down. Because of the 00:09:18.220 --> 00:09:20.720 fierce anger of the Lord, he has left his lair 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.000 like the lion, for their land is desolate because 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.440 of the fierceness of the oppressor and because 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.720 of his fierce anger. Chapter 36 Now it came to 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:33.899 pass, in the fourth year of Jehoakim the son 00:09:33.899 --> 00:09:36.490 of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came 00:09:36.490 --> 00:09:39.309 to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Take a scroll 00:09:39.309 --> 00:09:42.230 of a book and write on it all the words that 00:09:42.230 --> 00:09:44.470 I have spoken to you against Israel, against 00:09:44.470 --> 00:09:47.250 Judah, and against all the nations, from the 00:09:47.250 --> 00:09:49.889 day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even 00:09:49.889 --> 00:09:52.889 to this day. It may be that the house of Judah 00:09:52.889 --> 00:09:55.669 will hear all the adversities which I propose 00:09:55.669 --> 00:09:58.509 to bring upon them, that everyone may turn from 00:09:58.509 --> 00:10:01.490 his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity 00:10:01.490 --> 00:10:04.820 and their sin. Then Jeremiah called Baruch, the 00:10:04.820 --> 00:10:08.440 son of Noriah. And Baruch wrote on a scroll of 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.960 a book, at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.179 words of the Lord which he had spoken to him. 00:10:13.299 --> 00:10:16.179 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am confined, 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:19.399 I cannot go into the house of the Lord. You go, 00:10:19.460 --> 00:10:21.919 therefore, and read from the scroll which you 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:24.159 have written at my instruction, the words of 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.379 the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the 00:10:26.379 --> 00:10:29.330 Lord's house, on a day of fasting. And you shall 00:10:29.330 --> 00:10:32.350 also read them in the hearing of all Judah who 00:10:32.350 --> 00:10:35.210 come from their cities. It may be that they will 00:10:35.210 --> 00:10:37.429 present their supplication before the Lord, and 00:10:37.429 --> 00:10:40.149 everyone will turn from his evil way. For great 00:10:40.149 --> 00:10:42.730 is the anger and the fury that the Lord has pronounced 00:10:42.730 --> 00:10:46.149 against this people. And Baruch the son of Noriah 00:10:46.149 --> 00:10:48.429 did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet 00:10:48.429 --> 00:10:50.970 commanded him, reading from the book the words 00:10:50.970 --> 00:10:53.200 of the Lord in the Lord's house. Now it came 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.519 to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.919 of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.779 that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to 00:11:00.779 --> 00:11:03.220 all the people in Jerusalem and to all the people 00:11:03.220 --> 00:11:06.220 who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem. 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.279 Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:12.500 in the house of the Lord in the chamber of Gemariah, 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:15.500 the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper 00:11:15.500 --> 00:11:18.159 court at the entry of the new gate of the Lord's 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.950 house in the hearing of all the people. When 00:11:20.950 --> 00:11:24.129 Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, 00:11:24.250 --> 00:11:27.149 heard all the words of the Lord from the book, 00:11:27.289 --> 00:11:30.029 he then went down to the king's house into the 00:11:30.029 --> 00:11:32.490 scribe's chamber, and there all the princes were 00:11:32.490 --> 00:11:35.710 sitting. Elishamah, the scribe, Deliah, the son 00:11:35.710 --> 00:11:39.529 of Shemaiah, Ilnathan, the son of Akbar, Gemariah, 00:11:39.529 --> 00:11:42.649 the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, 00:11:42.730 --> 00:11:45.950 and all the princes. Then Micaiah declared to 00:11:45.950 --> 00:11:48.389 them all the words that he had heard when Baruch 00:11:48.389 --> 00:11:51.000 read the book in the hearing of the people. Therefore 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:54.559 all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, 00:11:54.580 --> 00:11:57.480 the son of Shalamiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, 00:11:57.539 --> 00:12:00.259 saying, Take in your hand the scroll from which 00:12:00.259 --> 00:12:01.919 you have read in the hearing of the people and 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.919 come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.200 in his hand and came to them. And they said to 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.799 him, Sit down now and read it in our hearing. 00:12:10.019 --> 00:12:12.850 So Baruch read it in their hearing. Now it happened, 00:12:12.950 --> 00:12:15.450 when they had heard all the words, that they 00:12:15.450 --> 00:12:17.929 looked in fear from one to another, and said 00:12:17.929 --> 00:12:20.710 to Baruch, We will surely tell the king all these 00:12:20.710 --> 00:12:23.289 words. And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us 00:12:23.289 --> 00:12:25.970 now, how did you write all these words, at his 00:12:25.970 --> 00:12:28.789 instruction? So Baruch answered them, He proclaimed 00:12:28.789 --> 00:12:31.690 with his mouth all these words to me, and I wrote 00:12:31.690 --> 00:12:34.309 them with ink in the book. Then the princess 00:12:34.309 --> 00:12:36.830 said to Baruch, Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, 00:12:37.110 --> 00:12:40.110 and let no one know where you are. And they went 00:12:40.110 --> 00:12:42.470 to the king into the court, and they stored the 00:12:42.470 --> 00:12:44.750 scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, 00:12:44.769 --> 00:12:46.970 and told all the words in the hearing of the 00:12:46.970 --> 00:12:50.210 king. So the king sent Jehudi to bring the scroll, 00:12:50.409 --> 00:12:52.809 and he took it from Elishama the scribe's chamber. 00:12:53.149 --> 00:12:55.309 And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, 00:12:55.429 --> 00:12:57.190 and in the hearing of all the princes who stood 00:12:57.190 --> 00:13:00.070 beside the king. Now the king was sitting in 00:13:00.070 --> 00:13:02.529 the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire 00:13:02.529 --> 00:13:05.139 burning on the hearth before him. And it happened 00:13:05.139 --> 00:13:07.840 when Jehudi had read three or four columns that 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.779 the king cut it with the scribe's knife and cast 00:13:10.779 --> 00:13:13.279 it into the fire that was on the hearth until 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.940 all the scroll was consumed in the fire that 00:13:15.940 --> 00:13:18.639 was on the hearth. Yet they were not afraid, 00:13:18.860 --> 00:13:22.039 nor did they tear their garments, the king, nor 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.259 any of his servants who heard all these words. 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.019 Nevertheless, Elnathan, Deliah, and Gemariah 00:13:28.019 --> 00:13:30.539 implored the king not to burn the scroll, but 00:13:30.539 --> 00:13:32.559 he would not listen to them. And the king commanded, 00:13:33.980 --> 00:13:37.720 the king's son, Sariah the son of Azrael, and 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:40.580 Shalamiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch 00:13:40.580 --> 00:13:42.480 the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.980 Lord hid them. Now after the king had burned 00:13:44.980 --> 00:13:47.139 the scroll with the words which Baruch had written 00:13:47.139 --> 00:13:49.379 at the instruction of Jeremiah, the word of the 00:13:49.379 --> 00:13:51.820 Lord came to Jeremiah saying, Take yet another 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:55.200 scroll and write on it all the former words that 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:58.259 were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim, the 00:13:58.259 --> 00:14:01.179 king of Judah, has burned. And you shall say 00:14:01.179 --> 00:14:04.159 to Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Thus says the Lord, 00:14:04.340 --> 00:14:06.779 You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have 00:14:06.779 --> 00:14:09.360 you written in it that the king of Babylon will 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.980 certainly come and destroy this land, and cause 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:15.000 man and beast to cease from here? Therefore, 00:14:15.139 --> 00:14:17.899 thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king 00:14:17.899 --> 00:14:20.480 of Judah, He shall have no one to sit on the 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.139 throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast 00:14:23.139 --> 00:14:25.840 out to the heat of the day and the frost of the 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.899 night. I will punish him, his family, and his 00:14:28.899 --> 00:14:31.419 servants for their iniquity, and I will bring 00:14:31.419 --> 00:14:34.250 on them on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and 00:14:34.250 --> 00:14:36.450 on the men of Judah all the doom that I have 00:14:36.450 --> 00:14:39.090 pronounced against them. But they did not heed. 00:14:39.529 --> 00:14:41.950 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it 00:14:41.950 --> 00:14:44.549 to Baruch the scribe, the son of Noriah, who 00:14:44.549 --> 00:14:47.090 wrote on it at the instruction of Jeremiah all 00:14:47.090 --> 00:14:49.450 the words of the book which Jehoakim king of 00:14:49.450 --> 00:14:52.669 Judah had burned in the fire. And besides, there 00:14:52.669 --> 00:14:59.240 were added to them many similar words. The word 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.220 that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch, the 00:15:01.220 --> 00:15:03.620 son of Noriah, when he had written these words 00:15:03.620 --> 00:15:05.940 in a book at the instruction of Jeremiah in the 00:15:05.940 --> 00:15:08.179 fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.220 king of Judah, saying, Thus says the Lord, the 00:15:11.220 --> 00:15:14.720 God of Israel, To you, O Baruch, you said, Woe 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:17.740 is me now, for the Lord has added grief to my 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:20.740 sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no 00:15:20.740 --> 00:15:23.679 rest. Thus you shall say to him, Thus says the 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.559 Lord, Behold what I have built, I will break 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.570 down. and what I have planted I will pluck up, 00:15:29.669 --> 00:15:32.950 that is, this whole land. And do you seek great 00:15:32.950 --> 00:15:35.850 things for yourself? Do not seek them, for behold, 00:15:35.970 --> 00:15:38.730 I will bring adversity on all flesh, says the 00:15:38.730 --> 00:15:42.090 Lord. But I will give your life to you as a prize 00:15:42.090 --> 00:15:50.950 in all places wherever you go. I hope you enjoyed 00:15:50.950 --> 00:15:53.250 today's reading as much as I did, and I look 00:15:53.250 --> 00:15:55.230 forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue 00:15:55.230 --> 00:15:57.419 on our journey. God bless you and have a great 00:15:57.419 --> 00:15:57.679 day.