Jeremiah 36:7-9

Good News Translation

⁷ Perhaps they will pray to the Lord and turn from their evil ways, because the Lord has threatened this people with his terrible anger and fury.” ⁸ So Baruch read the Lord's words in the Temple exactly as I had told him to do.

⁹ In the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, the people fasted to gain the Lord's favor. The fast was kept by all who lived in Jerusalem and by all who came there from the towns of Judah.