“Take for yourself a roll of a book, and you must write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, since the day that I spoke to you, since the days of Josiah, clear down to this day.

(Jer. 36:1-3)

3. Why was Jeremiah not trying to make a nuisance of himself, and how much time yet remained for people to do something about the situation?

³ Today the message that corresponds with what Jeremiah was told to write on the “roll of a book” proves to be just as unpopular.

The resulting manuscript contained all the words of Jehovah to Jeremiah from the 13th year of the reign of King Josiah onward, the year when Jehovah raised up the young priest-designate Jeremiah to be a prophet.