Jeremiah:32

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* The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah , which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar . * 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 you prophesy , and say , Thus says Yahweh , 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 see his eyes ; * and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon , and he shall be there until I visit him , says Yahweh : though you fight with the Chaldeans , you shall not prosper ? * Jeremiah said , The word of Yahweh came to me , saying , * Behold , Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you , saying , Buy my field that is in Anathoth ; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it . * So Hanamel my uncle 's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Yahweh , and said to me , Please buy my field that is in Anathoth , which is in the land of Benjamin ; for the right of inheritance is yours , and the redemption is yours ; buy it for yourself . Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh . * I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle 's son , and weighed him the money , even seventeen shekels of silver . * I subscribed 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 , containing the terms and conditions , 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 subscribed the deed of the purchase , before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard . * I commanded Baruch before them , saying , * Thus says Yahweh of Armies , 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 Yahweh of Armies , 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 Yahweh , saying , * Ah Lord Yahweh ! Behold , you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm ; there is nothing too hard for you , * who show loving kindness to thousands , and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them ; the great , the mighty God , Yahweh of Armies is his name ; * great in counsel , and mighty in work ; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men , to give everyone according to his ways , and according to the fruit of his doings : * who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt , even to this day , both in Israel and among other men ; and made yourself a name , as in this day ; * and brought forth your 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 you swore to their fathers to give them , a land flowing with milk and honey ; * and they came in , and possessed it , but they didn 't obey your voice , neither walked in your law ; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do : therefore you have caused all this evil to come on 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 you have spoken has happened ; and behold , you see it . * You have said to me , Lord Yahweh , Buy the field for money , and call witnesses ; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans . * Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah , saying , * Behold , I am Yahweh , the God of all flesh : is there anything too hard for me ? * Therefore thus says Yahweh : Behold , I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans , and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar 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 , on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal , and poured out drink offerings to other gods , to provoke me to anger . * For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth ; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands , says Yahweh . * 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 children of Israel and of the children of Judah , which they have done to provoke me to anger , they , their kings , their princes , their priests , and their prophets , and the men of Judah , and the inhabitants of Jerusalem . * They have turned to me the back , and not the face : and though I taught them , rising up early and teaching them , yet they have not listened to receive instruction . * But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name , to defile it . * 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 fire to Molech ; which I didn 't command them , neither did it come into my mind , that they should do this abomination , to cause Judah to sin . * Now therefore thus says Yahweh , the God of Israel , concerning this city , about which you 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 their good , and of their children 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 . * Yes , 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 Yahweh : Like as I have brought all this great evil on this people , so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them . * Fields shall be bought in this land , about which you say , It is desolate , without man or animal ; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans . * Men shall buy fields for money , and subscribe the deeds , and seal them , and call witnesses , in the land of Benjamin , and in the places about Jerusalem , and in the cities of Judah , and in the cities of the hill country , and in the cities of the lowland , and in the cities of the South : for I will cause their captivity to return , says Yahweh .

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