Evil is here used in the same sense as in 1.14. New International Version renders “disasters” and Good News Translation “destruction.”

Quite a few versions take these words that are written to mean “these words written here.” The verse could then be translated:

• Jeremiah wrote in a book an account of the destruction that would come to Babylonia. He wrote all these words here that are about Babylonia.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .