Jeremiah 32
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Jeremiah Buys a Field
1The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah during Zedekiah’s tenth year as king of Judah. (This was Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year as king.) 2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was blockading Jerusalem.
The prophet Jeremiah was locked up in the courtyard of the prison. This prison was in the palace of the king of Judah. 3When King Zedekiah of Judah locked up Jeremiah, Zedekiah asked him, “Why are you prophesying? You are saying, ‘This is what the Lord says: I’m going to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 4King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Babylonians. He will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon. He will talk to Nebuchadnezzar in person and look him in the eye. 5Nebuchadnezzar will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and Zedekiah will stay there until I deal with him, declares the Lord. When you fight the Babylonians, you won’t win.’ ”
6Jeremiah said, “The Lord spoke his word to me. He said, 7‘Jeremiah, your cousin Hanamel, son of Shallum, is going to come to you and say, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth, because as the closest relative it is your responsibility to buy it.” ’
8“Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the prison. He said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. It is your responsibility to purchase it, because the rights of the closest relative belong to you. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that the Lord had spoken to me.
9“So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and gave him the money. The field cost seven ounces of silver. 10I signed the deed, sealed it, had people witness the signing of the deed, and paid out the silver. 11Then I took the sealed copy of the deed, containing the terms and conditions, as well as an unsealed copy. 12I gave the copies of the deeds to Baruch, son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I did this in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who had signed the deed and in the presence of all the Jews who were sitting in the courtyard of the prison. 13Then I gave Baruch these orders: 14‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Take both of these documents, both the sealed and the unsealed copies of the deed. Put them in a clay jar so that they will last a long time. 15This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: My people will again buy houses, fields, and vineyards in this land.’
16“After I had given the copies to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord. I prayed, 17‘Almighty Lord, you made heaven and earth by your great strength and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you. 18You show mercy to thousands of generations. However, you punish children for the wickedness of their parents. You, God, are great and mighty. Your name is the Lord of Armies. 19You make wise plans and do mighty things. You see everything the descendants of Adam do. You reward them for the way they live and for what they do. 20You performed miraculous signs and amazing things in Egypt. To this day you are still doing them in Israel. You made a name for yourself that continues to this day. 21You brought your people from Egypt with miraculous signs and amazing things, with a mighty hand and a powerful arm, and with great terror. 22You gave them the land that you swore with an oath to give their ancestors, the land flowing with milk and honey. 23They entered and took possession of it. However, they refused to obey you or to follow your teachings. They didn’t do anything you commanded them to do, so you brought all this disaster on them.
24“ ‘See how the dirt ramps have been built up around the city to capture it! Because of wars, famines, and plagues, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians who are attacking it. What you have threatened to do has happened, as you can see. 25Yet you, Almighty Lord, told me to buy a field with money and get witnesses to confirm it, although the city was handed over to the Babylonians.’ ”
26The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said, 27“I am the Lord God of all humanity. Nothing is too hard for me. 28This is what the Lord says: I’m going to hand this city over to the Babylonians and King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They will capture it.
29“The Babylonians who are attacking this city will break in, set this city on fire, and burn it down. They will burn down the houses of people who made me furious by going up to the roofs to burn incense to Baal and to pour out wine offerings to other gods. 30Ever since they were young, the people of Israel and Judah have done what I consider evil. The people of Israel have made me furious by what they’ve done,” declares the Lord. 31“The people in this city have made me so angry and furious from the day they built it to this day. So now I must remove this city from my presence.
32“The people of Israel and Judah have made me furious because they are evil. The people, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, and the Judeans and those who live in Jerusalem 33have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn. 34They set up their detestable idols in the temple that is called by my name, and they dishonored it. 35In the valley of Ben Hinnom they built worship sites for Baal to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I didn’t ask them to do this. It never entered my mind. I didn’t make Judah sin.
36“You have said this about the city, ‘Because of wars, famines, and plagues it will be handed over to the king of Babylon.’ Now this is what the Lord God of Israel says: 37I am going to gather the people from all the lands where I scattered them in my anger, fury, and terrifying wrath. I will bring them back to this place and make them live here securely. 38They will be my people, and I will be their God. 39I will give them the same attitude and the same purpose so that they will fear me as long as they live. This will be for their own good and for the good of their children. 40I will make an eternal promise #32:40 Or “covenant.” to them that I will never stop blessing them. I will make them fear me so that they will never turn away from me. 41I will enjoy blessing them. With all my heart and soul I will faithfully plant them in this land.
42“This is what the Lord says: As I brought all these disasters on these people, so I will bring on them all these blessings that I have promised them. 43You have said that this land is a wasteland, without people or animals living in it. You have also said that it has been handed over to the Babylonians. But people will once again buy fields in this land. 44They will buy fields for money, sign deeds, seal them, and have people witness the signing of the deeds. This will happen in the territory of Benjamin, in the region of Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities on the mountains, in the hill country, and in the Negev because I will bring them back from their captivity,” declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 32
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Jeremiah Buys a Field
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord #2 Kin. 25:1, 2; Jer. 39:1, 2in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up #Neh. 3:25; Jer. 33:1; 37:21; 39:14in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house. 3For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you #Jer. 26:8, 9prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: #Jer. 21:3–7; 34:2“Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; 4and Zedekiah king of Judah #2 Kin. 25:4–7; Jer. 34:3; 38:18, 23; 39:5; 52:9shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face, and see him #Jer. 39:5eye to eye; 5then he shall #Jer. 27:22; 39:7; Ezek. 12:12, 13lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be #Jer. 27:22until I visit him,” says the Lord; #Jer. 21:4; 33:5“though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed” ’?”
6And Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 7‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the #Lev. 25:24, 25, 32; Ruth 4:4right of redemption is yours to buy it.” ’ 8Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. 9So I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and #Gen. 23:16; Zech. 11:12weighed out to him the money—seventeen shekels of silver. 10And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales. 11So I took the purchase deed, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open; 12and I gave the purchase deed to #Jer. 36:4Baruch the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the #Is. 8:2witnesses who signed the purchase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.
13“Then I charged #Jer. 36:4Baruch before them, saying, 14‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Take these deeds, both this purchase deed which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.” 15For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be #Ezra 2:1; (Jer. 31:5, 12, 14); Amos 9:14, 15; Zech. 3:10possessed again in this land.” ’
Jeremiah Prays for Understanding
16“Now when I had delivered the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying: 17‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, #2 Kin. 19:15; Ps. 102:25; Is. 40:26–29; Jer. 27:5You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. #Gen. 18:14; Jer. 32:27; Zech. 8:6; Matt. 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 18:27There is nothing too hard for You. 18You show #Ex. 20:6; 34:7; Deut. 5:9, 10lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them—the Great, #Ps. 50:1; (Is. 9:6); Jer. 20:11the Mighty God, whose name is #Jer. 10:16the Lord of hosts. 19You are #Is. 28:29great in counsel and mighty in work, for Your #Job 34:21; Ps. 33:13; Prov. 5:21; Jer. 16:17eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, #Ps. 62:12; Jer. 17:10; (Matt. 16:27; John 5:29)to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. 20You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, to this day, and in Israel and among other men; and You have made Yourself #Ex. 9:16; 1 Chr. 17:21; Is. 63:12; Jer. 13:11; Dan. 9:15a name, as it is this day. 21You #Ex. 6:6; 2 Sam. 7:23; 1 Chr. 17:21; Ps. 136:11, 12have brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror; 22You have given them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them—#Ex. 3:8, 17; Deut. 1:8; Ps. 105:9–11; Jer. 11:5“a land flowing with milk and honey.” 23And they came in and took possession of it, but #(Neh. 9:26); Jer. 11:8; (Dan. 9:10–14)they have not obeyed Your voice or walked in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this calamity to come upon them.
24‘Look, the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it; and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of #Jer. 14:12; Ezek. 14:21the sword and famine and pestilence. What You have spoken has happened; there You see it! 25And You have said to me, O Lord God, “Buy the field for money, and take witnesses”!—yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ ”
God’s Assurance of the People’s Return
26Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 27“Behold, I am the Lord, the #(Num. 16:22)God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? 28Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it. 29And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and #2 Chr. 36:19; Jer. 21:10; 37:8, 10; 52:13set fire to this city and burn it, with the houses #Jer. 19:13on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger; 30because the children of Israel and the children of Judah #Deut. 9:7–12; Is. 63:10; Jer. 2:7; 3:25; 7:22–26; Ezek. 20:28have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands,’ says the Lord. 31‘For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; #2 Kin. 23:27; 24:3; Jer. 27:10so I will remove it from before My face 32because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—#Ezra 9:7; Is. 1:4, 6; Dan. 9:8they, their kings, their princes, their priests, #Jer. 23:14their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33And they have turned to Me the #Jer. 2:27; 7:24back, and not the face; though I taught them, #Jer. 7:13rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. 34But they #2 Kin. 21:1–7; Jer. 7:10–12, 30; 23:11; Ezek. 8:5, 6set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 35And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to #2 Chr. 28:2, 3; 33:6; Jer. 7:31; 19:5cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to #Lev. 18:21; 1 Kin. 11:33; 2 Kin. 23:10; Acts 7:43Molech, #Jer. 7:31which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’
36“Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence’: 37Behold, I will #Deut. 30:3; Jer. 23:3; 29:14; 31:10; 50:19; Ezek. 37:21gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them #Jer. 33:16to dwell safely. 38They shall be #(Jer. 24:7; 30:22; 31:33)My people, and I will be their God; 39then I will #(Jer. 24:7; Ezek. 11:19)give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 40And #Is. 55:3; Jer. 31:31; Ezek. 37:26I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but #Deut. 31:6, 8; (Ezek. 39:29; Jer. 31:33)I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. 41Yes, #Deut. 30:9; Is. 62:5; 65:19; Zeph. 3:17I will rejoice over them to do them good, and #Jer. 24:6; 31:28; Amos 9:15I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.’
42“For thus says the Lord: #Jer. 31:28; Zech. 8:14, 15‘Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. 43And fields will be bought in this land #Jer. 33:10of which you say, “It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.” 44Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in #Jer. 17:26the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for #Jer. 33:7, 11I will cause their captives to return,’ says the Lord.”
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