9犹大王约西亚的儿子约雅敬第五年九月，在耶和华面前宣告禁食时，巴录就在耶和华的殿中，将书上耶利米的话念给耶路撒冷的众民，和那从犹大城邑来的众民听。他们中间的一位首领听见这话以后，就下到王宫，对众首领述说他在那书上所听见的一切话。众首领就打发人到巴录那里，要他将所念给百姓听的书卷拿在手中，到他们这里来，念给他们听。他们听见这一切话就害怕，面面相觑，对巴录说，他们必须将这一切话报告王。他们要巴录和耶利米去藏起来，不可叫人知道他们在那里。（9～19。）众首领进院见王，将书念给王和侍立在王左右的众首领听。念书卷时正是九月，王坐在过冬的房屋里，王前面的火盆中有烧著的火。王听了三四行以后，就用书记的刀将书卷割破，扔在火盆中，直到全卷在火中烧尽了。（20～23。）王和听见这一切话的臣仆，都不惧怕，也不撕裂衣服。反而，王吩咐王的儿子去捉拿巴录和耶利米，耶和华却将他们隐藏了。（24～26。）王烧了书卷以后，耶和华告诉耶利米，再取一卷，将犹大王约雅敬所烧前卷上的一切话，写在其上。（27～28。）论到约雅敬，耶利米受吩咐说，『耶和华如此说，你烧了这书卷，说，你为甚么在其上写著说，巴比伦王必要来毁灭这地，使这地上绝了人口牲畜？』（29。）耶利米要告诉约雅敬，他后裔中必没有人坐在大卫的宝座上；他的尸首必被抛弃，白日受炎热，黑夜受寒霜。他又告诉约雅敬，耶和华必因他和他的后裔，并他臣仆的罪孽，惩罚他们，祂要使祂所说的一切灾祸，临到他们和耶路撒冷的居民，并犹大人。虽然祂对他们说到这些事，但他们不听。（30～31。）
9In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, in the fast proclaimed before Jehovah, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah in the book in the house of Jehovah to all the people in Jerusalem and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah. A leader among them, after hearing the word, went down to the king'sho use and told the princes there what he had heard in that book. Then the princes sent someone to Baruch to ask him to come to them with the scroll in his hand and read it to them. After hearing all the words in it, they turned in fear one to another and told Baruch that they had to report all those words to the king. They asked Baruch and Jeremiah to hide themselves and to let no one know where they were (vv. 9-19). The princes went to the king in the court, and the scroll was read to the king and to all the princes who stood by him. As the scroll was being read, the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and the fire of the brazier was burning before him. After listening to three or four columns, the king would cut it with a scribe's knife and throw the pieces into the brazier, until the whole scroll was consumed in the fire (vv. 20-23). The king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid and did not rend their garments. Rather, the king commanded his son and others to seize Baruch and Jeremiah, but Jehovah hid them (vv. 24-26). Then, after the king had burned the scroll, Jehovah told Jeremiah to take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned (v v. 2 7-2 8). Concerning Jehoiakim, Jeremiah was commanded to say, "Thus says Jehovah, You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in it, saying, The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and will cause man and beast to cease from it?" (v. 29). Jeremiah was to tell Jehoiakim that he would have no one to sit on the throne of David and that his corpse would be cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night. Jehoiakim was also told that Jehovah would punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity and that He would bring on them and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on the men of Judah all the evil that He had spoken against them. Although He had spoken to them concerning these things, they would not listen (vv. 30-31).