Baruch 1:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

² in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.

³ Baruch read the words of this book to Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and to all the people who came to hear the book, ⁴ and to the nobles and the princes, and to the elders, and to all the people, small and great, all who lived in Babylon by the river Sud.