Jeremiah:32

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* The word that came to Jeremiah from LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah , king of Judah , which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar . * Now at that time the king of Babylon 's army was besieging Jerusalem , and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard , which was in the king of Judah 's house . * For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up , saying , Why do thou prophesy , and say , Thus says LORD : Behold , I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon , and he shall take it . * And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans , but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon , and shall speak with him mouth to mouth , and his eyes shall behold his eyes . * And he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon , and there he shall be until I visit him , says LORD . Though ye fight with the Chaldeans , ye shall not prosper ? * And Jeremiah said , The word of LORD came to me , saying , * Behold , Hanamel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come to thee , saying , Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth . For the right of redemption is thine to buy it . * So Hanamel my uncle 's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of LORD , and said to me , Buy my field , I pray thee , that is in Anathoth , which is in the land of Benjamin . For the right of inheritance is thine , * And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle 's son , and weighed him the money , even seventeen shekels of silver . * And I signed the deed , and sealed it , and called witnesses , and weighed him the money in the balances . * So I took the deed of the purchase , both that which was sealed , [according to ] the law and custom , and that which was open , * and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah , the son of Mahseiah , in the presence of Hanamel my uncle 's [son ], and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase , before all the Jews w * And I charged Baruch before them , saying , * Thus says LORD of hosts , the God of Israel : Take these deeds , this deed of the purchase which is sealed , and this deed which is open , and put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days . * For thus says LORD of hosts , the God of Israel : Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land . * Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah , I prayed to LORD , saying , * Ah lord LORD ! Behold , thou have made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm . There is nothing too hard for thee , * who show loving kindness to thousands , and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them , the great , the mighty God . LORD of hosts is his name , * great in counsel , and mighty in work , whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men , to give everyone according to his ways , and according to the fruit of his doings , * who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt , even to this day , both in Israel and among [other ] men , and made thee a name , as at this day , * and brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs , and with wonders , and with a strong hand , and with an outstretched arm , and with great terror , * and gave them this land , which thou swore to their fathers to give them , a land flowing with milk and honey . * And they came in , and possessed it , but they obeyed not thy voice , nor walked in thy law . They have done nothing of all that thou commanded them to do . Therefore thou have caused all this evil to come upon them . * Behold , the mounds . They have come to the city to take it . And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it , because of the sword , and of the famine , and of the pestilence . And what thou have spoken has com * And thou have said to me , O lord LORD , Buy thee the field for money , and call witnesses , whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans . * Then the word of LORD came to Jeremiah , saying , * Behold , I am LORD , the God of all flesh . Is there anything too hard for me ? * Therefore thus says LORD : Behold , I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans , and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , and he shall take it . * And the Chaldeans , who fight against this city , shall come and set this city on fire , and burn it , with the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal , and poured out drink-offerings to other gods , to provoke me to a * For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth . For the sons of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands , says LORD . * For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day , that I should remove it from before my face , * because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah , which they have done to provoke me to anger , they , their kings , their rulers , their priests , and their prophets , and the men of Judah , and the inhabitants of J * And they have turned the back to me , and not the face . And though I taught them , rising up early and teaching them , yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction . * But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name , to defile it . * And they built the high places of Baal , which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom , to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire ] to Molech , which I did not command them , nor did it come into my mind , that th * And now therefore thus says LORD , the God of Israel , concerning this city , of which ye say , It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword , and by the famine , and by the pestilence : * Behold , I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger , and in my wrath , and in great indignation . And I will bring them again to this place , and I will cause them to dwell safely . * And they shall be my people , and I will be their God . * And I will give them one heart and one way , that they may fear me forever , for the good of them , and of their sons after them . * And I will make an everlasting covenant with them , that I will not turn away from following them , to do them good . And I will put my fear in their hearts , that they may not depart from me . * Yea , I will rejoice over them to do them good . And I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul . * For thus says LORD : Just as I have brought all this great evil upon this people , so I will bring upon them all the good that I have promised them . * And fields shall be bought in this land , of which ye say , It is desolate , without man or beast . It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans . * Men shall buy fields for money , and sign the deeds , and seal them , and call witnesses , in the land of Benjamin , and in the places around Jerusalem , and in the cities of Judah , and in the cities of the hill-country , and in the citie

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