KJV King James Version
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
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And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;
Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can’t go into the house of Yahweh:
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of Jehovah:
And Jeremiah commandeth Baruch, saying, ‘I am restrained, I am not able to enter the house of Jehovah;
2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD’S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD’S house.
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