Jeremiah 32:44 - Prayer Tents

Jeremiah 32

Jeremiah Buys a Field During the Siege

32The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.H1697H3414H3068H6224H8141H6667H4428H3063H8083H6240H8141H8141H50192At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.H4428H894H2428H6696H3389H3414H5030H3607H2691H4307H4428H3063H10043For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, "Why do you prophesy and say, 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it;H6667H4428H3063H3607H559H5012H559H559H3068H5414H5892H3027H4428H894H39204Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.H6667H4428H3063H4422H3027H3778H5414H5414H3027H4428H894H1696H6310H6310H5869H7200H58695And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the LORD. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed'?"H3212H6667H894H6485H5002H3068H3898H3778H67436Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me:H3414H559H1697H3068H5597Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'H2601H1121H7967H1730H935H559H7069H7704H6068H4941H1353H70698Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.H2601H1730H1121H935H2691H4307H1697H3068H559H7069H7704H6068H776H1144H4941H3425H1353H7069H3045H1697H30689"And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.H7069H7704H2601H1730H1121H6068H8254H3701H7651H6235H8255H370110I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.H3789H5612H2856H5749H5707H8254H3701H397611Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy.H3947H5612H4736H2856H4687H2706H154012And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard.H5414H5612H4736H1263H1121H5374H1121H4271H5869H2601H1730H5869H5707H3789H5612H4736H5869H3064H3427H2691H430713I charged Baruch in their presence, saying,H6680H1263H5869H55914'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H3947H5612H5612H4736H2856H5612H1540H5414H2789H3627H5975H7227H311715For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.'H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1004H7704H3754H7069H776

Jeremiah Prays for Understanding

16"After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying:H310H5414H5612H4736H1263H1121H5374H6419H3068H55917'Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.H162H136H3069H6213H8064H776H1419H3581H5186H2220H1697H638118You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts,H6213H2617H505H7999H5771H1H2436H1121H310H1419H1368H410H3068H6635H803419great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.H1419H6098H7227H5950H5869H6491H1870H1121H120H5414H376H1870H6529H461120You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day.H7760H226H4159H776H4714H3117H3478H120H6213H8034H311721You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror.H3318H5971H3478H776H4714H226H4159H2389H3027H5186H248H1419H417222And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.H5414H776H7650H1H5414H776H2100H2461H170623And they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them.H935H3423H8085H6963H1980H8451H6213H6680H6213H7451H712224Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it.H5550H935H5892H3920H5892H5414H3027H3778H3898H6440H2719H7458H1698H1696H720025Yet you, O Lord GOD, have said to me, "Buy the field for money and get witnesses"—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.'"H559H136H3069H7069H7704H3701H5749H5707H5892H5414H3027H377826The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:H1697H3068H3414H55927"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?H3068H430H1320H1697H638128Therefore, thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it.H559H3068H5414H5892H3027H3778H3027H5019H4428H894H392029The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.H3778H3898H5892H935H3341H784H5892H8313H1004H1406H6999H1168H5258H5262H312H430H370730For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.H1121H3478H1121H3063H6213H7451H5869H5271H1121H3478H3707H4639H3027H5002H306831This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sightH5892H639H2534H3117H1129H3117H5493H644032because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.H7451H1121H3478H1121H3063H6213H3707H4428H8269H3548H5030H376H3063H3427H338933They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.H6437H6203H6440H3925H7925H3925H8085H3947H414834They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.H7760H8251H1004H7121H8034H293035They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.H1129H1116H1168H1516H1121H2011H1121H1323H5674H4432H6680H5927H3820H6213H8441H3063H2398

They Shall Be My People

36"Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, 'It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence':H559H3068H430H3478H5892H559H5414H3027H4428H894H2719H7458H169837Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.H6908H776H5080H639H2534H1419H7110H7725H4725H3427H98338And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.H5971H43039I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.H5414H259H3820H259H1870H3372H3117H2896H1121H31040I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.H3772H5769H1285H7725H310H3190H5414H3374H3824H549341I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.H7797H2895H5193H776H571H3820H531542"For thus says the LORD: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.H559H3068H935H1419H7451H5971H935H2896H169643Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, 'It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'H7704H7069H776H559H8077H120H929H5414H3027H377844Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD."H7069H7704H3701H3789H5612H2856H5749H5707H776H1144H5439H3389H5892H3063H5892H2022H5892H8219H5892H5045H7622H7725H5002H3068