32The LORD spoke to me in the tenth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, which was also the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.H1697H3414H3068H6224H8141H6667H4428H3063H8083H6240H8141H8141H50192At that time the army of the king of Babylonia was attacking Jerusalem, and I was locked up in the courtyard of the royal palace.H4428H894H2428H6696H3389H3414H5030H3607H2691H4307H4428H3063H10043King Zedekiah had imprisoned me there and had accused me of announcing that the LORD had said, "I am going to let the king of Babylonia capture this city,H6667H4428H3063H3607H559H5012H559H559H3068H5414H5892H3027H4428H894H39204and King Zedekiah will not escape. He will be handed over to the king of Babylonia; he will see him face-to-face and will speak to him in person.H6667H4428H3063H4422H3027H3778H5414H5414H3027H4428H894H1696H6310H6310H5869H7200H58695Zedekiah will be taken to Babylonia, and he will remain there until I deal with him. Even if he fights the Babylonians, he will not be successful. I, the LORD, have spoken."H3212H6667H894H6485H5002H3068H3898H3778H67436The LORD told meH3414H559H1697H3068H5597that Hanamel, my uncle Shallum's son, would come to me with the request to buy his field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin, because I was his nearest relative and had the right to buy it for myself.H2601H1121H7967H1730H935H559H7069H7704H6068H4941H1353H70698Then, just as the LORD had said, Hanamel came to me there in the courtyard and asked me to buy the field. So I knew that the LORD had really spoken to me.H2601H1730H1121H935H2691H4307H1697H3068H559H7069H7704H6068H776H1144H4941H3425H1353H7069H3045H1697H30689I bought the field from Hanamel and weighed out the money to him; the price came to seventeen pieces of silver.H7069H7704H2601H1730H1121H6068H8254H3701H7651H6235H8255H370110I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the money on scales.H3789H5612H2856H5749H5707H8254H3701H397611Then I took both copies of the deed of purchase - the sealed copy containing the contract and its conditions, and the open copy -H3947H5612H4736H2856H4687H2706H154012and gave them to Baruch, the son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I gave them to him in the presence of Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed of purchase and of the people who were sitting in the courtyard.H5414H5612H4736H1263H1121H5374H1121H4271H5869H2601H1730H5869H5707H3789H5612H4736H5869H3064H3427H2691H430713Before them all I said to Baruch,H6680H1263H5869H55914"The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, has ordered you to take these deeds, both the sealed deed of purchase and the open copy, and to place them in a clay jar, so that they may be preserved for years to come.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H3947H5612H5612H4736H2856H5612H1540H5414H2789H3627H5975H7227H311715The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, has said that houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land."H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1004H7704H3754H7069H77616After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch, I prayed,H310H5414H5612H4736H1263H1121H5374H6419H3068H55917"Sovereign LORD, you made the earth and the sky by your great power and might; nothing is too difficult for you.H162H136H3069H6213H8064H776H1419H3581H5186H2220H1697H638118You have shown constant love to thousands, but you also punish people for the sins of their parents. You are a great and powerful God; you are the LORD Almighty.H6213H2617H505H7999H5771H1H2436H1121H310H1419H1368H410H3068H6635H803419You make wise plans and do mighty things; you see everything that people do, and you reward them according to their actions.H1419H6098H7227H5950H5869H6491H1870H1121H120H5414H376H1870H6529H461120Long ago you performed miracles and wonders in Egypt, and you have continued to perform them to this day, both in Israel and among all the other nations, so that you are now known everywhere.H7760H226H4159H776H4714H3117H3478H120H6213H8034H311721By means of miracles and wonders that terrified our enemies, you used your power and might to bring your people Israel out of Egypt.H3318H5971H3478H776H4714H226H4159H2389H3027H5186H248H1419H417222You gave them this rich and fertile land, as you had promised their ancestors.H5414H776H7650H1H5414H776H2100H2461H170623But when they came into this land and took possession of it, they did not obey your commands or live according to your teaching; they did nothing that you had ordered them to do. And so you brought all this destruction on them.H935H3423H8085H6963H1980H8451H6213H6680H6213H7451H712224"The Babylonians have built siege mounds around the city to capture it, and they are attacking. War, starvation, and disease will make the city fall into their hands. You can see that all you have said has come true.H5550H935H5892H3920H5892H5414H3027H3778H3898H6440H2719H7458H1698H1696H720025Yet, Sovereign LORD, you are the one who ordered me to buy the field in the presence of witnesses, even though the city is about to be captured by the Babylonians."H559H136H3069H7069H7704H3701H5749H5707H5892H5414H3027H377826Then the LORD said to me,H1697H3068H3414H55927"I am the LORD, the God of all people. Nothing is too difficult for me.H3068H430H1320H1697H638128I am going to give this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his army; they will capture itH559H3068H5414H5892H3027H3778H3027H5019H4428H894H392029and set it on fire. They will burn it down, together with the houses where people have made me angry by burning incense to Baal on the rooftops and by pouring out wine offerings to other gods.H3778H3898H5892H935H3341H784H5892H8313H1004H1406H6999H1168H5258H5262H312H430H370730From the very beginning of their history the people of Israel and the people of Judah have displeased me and made me angry by what they have done.H1121H3478H1121H3063H6213H7451H5869H5271H1121H3478H3707H4639H3027H5002H306831The people of this city have made me angry and furious from the day it was built. I have decided to destroy itH5892H639H2534H3117H1129H3117H5493H644032because of all the evil that has been done by the people of Judah and Jerusalem, together with their kings and leaders, their priests and prophets.H7451H1121H3478H1121H3063H6213H3707H4428H8269H3548H5030H376H3063H3427H338933They turned their backs on me; and though I kept on teaching them, they would not listen and learn.H6437H6203H6440H3925H7925H3925H8085H3947H414834They even placed their disgusting idols in the Temple built for my worship, and they have defiled it.H7760H8251H1004H7121H8034H293035They have built altars to Baal in Hinnom Valley, to sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. I did not command them to do this, and it did not even enter my mind that they would do such a thing and make the people of Judah sin."H1129H1116H1168H1516H1121H2011H1121H1323H5674H4432H6680H5927H3820H6213H8441H3063H239836The LORD, the God of Israel, said to me, "Jeremiah, the people are saying that war, starvation, and disease will make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylonia. Now listen to what else I have to say.H559H3068H430H3478H5892H559H5414H3027H4428H894H2719H7458H169837I am going to gather the people from all the countries where I have scattered them in my anger and fury, and I am going to bring them back to this place and let them live here in safety.H6908H776H5080H639H2534H1419H7110H7725H4725H3427H98338Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.H5971H43039I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.H5414H259H3820H259H1870H3372H3117H2896H1121H31040I will make an eternal covenant with them. I will never stop doing good things for them, and I will make them fear me with all their heart, so that they will never turn away from me.H3772H5769H1285H7725H310H3190H5414H3374H3824H549341I will take pleasure in doing good things for them, and I will establish them permanently in this land.H7797H2895H5193H776H571H3820H531542"Just as I have brought this disaster on these people, so I am going to give them all the good things that I have promised.H559H3068H935H1419H7451H5971H935H2896H169643The people are saying that this land will be like a desert where neither people nor animals live, and that it will be given over to the Babylonians. But fields will once again be bought in this land.H7704H7069H776H559H8077H120H929H5414H3027H377844People will buy them, and the deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed. This will take place in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah, and in the towns in the hill country, in the foothills, and in southern Judah. I will restore the people to their land. I, the LORD, have spoken."H7069H7704H3701H3789H5612H2856H5749H5707H776H1144H5439H3389H5892H3063H5892H2022H5892H8219H5892H5045H7622H7725H5002H3068
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