The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Jeremiah 32
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh 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. 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, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he will take it;
4 and Zedekiah king of Judah won’t escape
out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but
will surely be delivered into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and will speak with
him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see
his eyes;
5 and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon,
and he will be there until I visit him,”
says Yahweh, “though you fight with the
Chaldeans, you will not prosper” ’?”
6 Jeremiah said, “Yahweh’s word came to
me, saying,
7 ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum
your uncle will 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
Yahweh’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, andthe redemptionis
yours. Buy it for yourself.’
“Then I knew that this was Yahweh’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, sealed it, called
witnesses, and weighed the money in the
balances to him.
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 allthe Jews who satinthe
court of the guard.
13 “I commanded Baruch before them,
saying,
14 Yahweh 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 last many days.’
15 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says:
‘Houses andfields and vineyards
will 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 Yahweh, saying,
17 “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.
18 You show loving kindness to thousands,
and repay the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom oftheir children after
them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh
of Armies is your name:
19 great in counsel, and mighty in work;
whose eyes are open to all the ways of the
children 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, with wonders,
with a strong hand, 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 They came in and possessed it, but
theydidn’t obey your voice anddidn’t walk
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, siege ramps have been
built against the city to take it. The city
is given into the hand of the Chaldeans
who fight against it, because of the
sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence.
What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.
25 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.”
26 Then Yahweh’s word came to
Jeremiah, saying,
27 “Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all
flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?
28 Therefore Yahweh says: Behold, I
will give this city into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will
take it.
29 The Chaldeans, who fight against this
city, will 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 ofIsrael 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.
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,
so 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, their prophets, the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 They have turned their backs to me,
and not their faces. Although 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. It didn’t even
come into my mind, that they should do
this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
36 Now therefore Yahweh, 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, 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. I will cause them to dwell safely.
38 Then they will be my people, and I will
be their God.
39 I will give them one heart and one way,
that they may fear me forever, for their
good and the good of their children after
them.
40 I will make an everlasting covenant
with them, that I will not turn away from
following them, to do them good. 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 Yahweh says: “Just as I have
brought all this great evil on this people, so
I will bring on them all the good thatI have
promised them.
43 Fields will be bought in this land,
about which you say, ‘It is desolate,
with out manor animal. Itis given into thehand
of the Chaldeans.’
44 Men will buy fields for money, sign the
deeds, seal them, and call witnesses, in the
land ofBenjamin, and in the places around
Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the
cities of the hill country, in the cities of the
lowland, and in the cities of the South; for
I will cause their captivity to be reversed,”
says Yahweh.