AB - Jeremiah - 32

32:1  The word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah in the tenth year of King Zedekiah, this is the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

32:2  And the army of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem; and Jeremiah was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king's house.

32:3  For King Zedekiah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

32:4  and Zedekiah shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;

32:5  and Zedekiah shall go into Babylon, and dwell there?

32:6  And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

32:7  Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallom your father's brother is coming to you, saying, Buy my field that is in Anathoth: for you have the right of redemption, to buy it.

32:8  So Hanamel the son of Shallom my father's brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for you have a right to buy it, and you are the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.

32:9  And I bought the field of Hanamel the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.

32:10  And I wrote it in a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.

32:11  And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;

32:12  and I gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.

32:13  And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty:

32:14  Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and you shall put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.

32:15  For thus says the Lord: There shall yet be bought fields and houses and vineyards in this land.

32:16  And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, saying,

32:17  O great Lord! You have made the heaven and the earth by Your great power, and with Your high and lofty arm; nothing can be hidden from You.

32:18  Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God;

32:19  the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the Great Almighty God, and Lord of great name. Your eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to everyone according to his way;

32:20  who has wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and You made for Yourself a name, as it is this day;

32:21  and You brought out Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great sights;

32:22  and You gave them this land, which You swore to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;

32:23  and they went in, and took it; but they hearkened not to Your voice, and walked not in Your ordinances. They did none of the things which You commanded them, and they caused all these calamities to come upon them.

32:24  Behold, a multitude has come against the city, to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine. As You have spoken, so has it happened.

32:25  And You have said to me, Buy the field for money; and I wrote a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city was given into the hands of the Chaldeans.

32:26  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

32:27  I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: shall anything be hidden from Me?

32:28  Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

32:29  and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses where they burnt incense on its roofs to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me.

32:30  For the children of Israel and the children of Judah alone did evil in My sight from their youth.

32:31  For this city was obnoxious to My anger and My wrath, from the day that they built it, even to this day; that I should remove it from My presence,

32:32  because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Judah, which they have done to provoke Me, they and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

32:33  And they turned their backs to Me, and not their faces; though I taught them early in the morning, but they listened no more to receive instructions,

32:34  and they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, by their uncleannesses.

32:35  And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer their sons and their daughters to King Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

32:36  And now thus has the Lord God of Israel said concerning this city, of which you say, it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and banishment:

32:37  Behold, I will gather them out of every land, where I have scattered them in My anger, and My wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:

32:38  and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God.

32:39  And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them.

32:40  And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

32:41  And I will visit them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all My heart, and with all My soul.

32:42  For thus says the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced upon them.

32:43  And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which you say, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.

32:44  And they shall buy fields for money, and you shall write a book, and seal it, and shall take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.