Jeremiah 36:7-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ Perhaps their petition will come before the Lord,^(A) and each one will turn from his evil way, for the anger and fury that the Lord has pronounced against this people are great.” ⁸ So Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. At the Lord’s temple he read the Lord’s words from the scroll.

Baruch Reads the Scroll

⁹ In the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month,^(B) all the people of Jerusalem and all those coming in from Judah’s cities into Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.^(C)