that examination may be made in your fathers' book of record. And you shall find, and you shall know that this city [is] rebellious, and does harm to kings and countries, and there are in the midst of it from very old time refuges for [runaway] slaves. Therefore this city has been made desolate.

And a decree has been made by me, and we have examined, and found that city of old time exalts itself against kings, and that rebellions and desertions take place within it.

And now, if it [seems] good to the king, let a search be made in the treasure house of the king at Babylon, that you may know whether [it is so], that a decree was made by King Cyrus to build that house of God that was in Jerusalem, and let the king send to us when he has learned concerning this [matter].

I was the father of the helpless, and I searched out the cause which I knew not.

The glory of God conceals a matter, but the glory of a king honors business.

Then I said, Behold, I have come; in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Take a scroll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to you against Jerusalem, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah king of Judah, even to this day.

So Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah. And he wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which He had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.

And they went in to the king into the court, and gave the scroll [to one] to keep in the house of Elishama; and they told the king all these words.

Now the king was sitting in the winter house, and [there was] a fire on the hearth before him.

And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it [was] a volume of a book.

And He said to me, Son of Man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.

And I saw in the right [hand] of He that sat on the throne a scroll, having been written inside and outside, [and] having been sealed with seven seals.