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1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in
the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadnezzar. 2 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. 3 For Zedekiah king of
Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Jehovah says, “Behold,
I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take
it; 4 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; 5 and
he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he shall be there until I visit him,”
says Jehovah: “Though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper”’?”
6 Jeremiah said, “Jehovah’s word came to me,
saying, 7 ‘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.”’”
8 So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the
court of the guard according to Jehovah’s word, 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 Jehovah’s word.
9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of
Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of
silver. 10 I signed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and
weighed him the money in the balances. 11 So I took the deed of the
purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and
that which was open; 12 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 who sat in the court of the guard.
13 I commanded Baruch before them, saying, 14 “Jehovah
of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘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.’ 15 For Jehovah of Armies, the
God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought
in this land.’”
16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the
purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Jehovah, saying, 17 “Ah
Lord Jehovah! 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, 18 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, Jehovah
of Armies is his name; 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes
are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: 20 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 it is today; 21 and brought 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; 22 and gave
them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing
with milk and honey; 23 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 upon them. 24 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. 25 You have said to me,
Lord Jehovah, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is
given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’”
26 Then Jehovah’s word came to Jeremiah, saying, 27 “Behold,
I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?” 28 Therefore
Jehovah says: “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: 29 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. 30 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 Jehovah.
31 “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, 32 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. 33 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. 34 But
they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile
it. 35 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.”
36 Now therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, says
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:” 37 “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: 38 and they shall be
my people, and I will be their God: 39 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: 40 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. 41 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.”
42 For Jehovah says: “As I have brought all this
great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have
promised them. 43 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.’ 44 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 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
return them from their captivity, says Jehovah.”
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