The burning of the roll was not the end of the matter. The written words were more easily disposed of than the reproof and warning they contained and the swift-coming punishment God had pronounced against rebellious Israel. But even the written roll was reproduced. "Take thee again another roll," the Lord commanded His servant, "and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned." The record of the prophecies concerning Judah and Jerusalem had been 437 reduced to ashes; but the words were still living in the heart of Jeremiah, "as a burning fire," and the prophet was permitted to reproduce that which the wrath of man would fain have destroyed.

Bogrullens tilintetgørelse var ikke enden på sagen. Det var lettere at tilintetgøre det skrevne ord end at komme uden om de irettesættelser og advarsler, som det indeholdt, og den straf, som Gud havde sagt ville komme pludselig over det oprørske Israel. Men selv den skrevne bogrulle blev erstattet. Herren sagde til sin tjener: "Tag dig en anden bogrulle og optegn i den alle de ord, som stod i den første bogrulle, den, kong Jojakim af Juda brændte." Den bogrulle, som indeholdt profetierne om Juda og Jerusalem, var blevet til aske, men dens ord levede stadig i Jeremias hjerte, "som brændende ild" og profeten fik tilladelse til atter at nedskrive det, som mennesket i sin vrede hellere end gerne ville have tilintetgjort.