Jeremiah 32
32:1The word having come from the lord to Jeremiah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah -- this is the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
32:2And the force of the king of Babylon built a palisade against Jerusalem. And Jeremiah was being guarded in the courtyard of the guard, which is in the house of the king of Judah.
32:3By which king Zedekiah imprisoned him, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus said the lord, Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
32:4and Zedekiah in no way shall escape from out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for by being delivered up he shall be delivered up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with his mouth to his mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes.
32:5And Zedekiah shall enter into Babylon, and there he shall stay until of which time I should look upon him, says the lord. But if you should wage war against the Chaldeans you shall not be prosperous.
32:6And Jeremiah spoke. And the word of the lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
32:7Behold, Hanameel son of Shallum brother of your father comes to you, saying, Acquire to yourself my field, the one in Anathoth! for it is equitable to you to take it for a possession.
32:8And Hanameel the son of Shallum the brother of my father came to me according to the word of the lord in the courtyard of the guard. And he said to me, Acquire to yourself my field! the one in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin; for it is equitable to you to acquire, for you are older. And I knew that it was the word of the lord.
32:9And I acquired the field from Hanameel the son of the brother of my father, the field in Anathoth. And I set for him seven and ten silver shekels.
32:10And I wrote in a scroll, and set a seal upon it, and took the testimony of witnesses, and set the silver in a yoke balance scale.
32:11And I took the scroll of the possession being read and having the seal set upon,
32:12and I gave it to Baruch, son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel son of the brother of my father, and before the eyes of the ones standing witnessing and writing in the scroll of the possession, and according to the eyes of all the Jews sitting down in the courtyard of the guard.
32:13And I ordered Baruch in front of their eyes, saying,
32:14Thus said the lord almighty, the God of Israel, Take the scroll of this possession! even this scroll being sealed and being read. And you shall put it into an earthenware receptacle, that it should remain many more days.
32:15For thus said the lord of the forces, the God of Israel, Still there shall be created fields, and houses, and vineyards in this land.
32:16And I prayed to the lord after my giving the scroll of the possession to Baruch son of Neriah, saying,
32:17O Being One, O lord God, you made the heaven and the earth by your great strength, and by your high and elevated arm; in no way shall anything be concealed from you;
32:18the one having mercy unto thousands, and recompensing sins of fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great and strong God; the lord of the forces, is his name,
32:19of great counsel, and mighty in works. Your eyes are opened upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give each according to his way, and according to the fruit of his practices.
32:20The one who did signs and miracles in the land of Egypt unto this day, and in Israel, and among the earth-born; and you made for yourself a name, as this day.
32:21And you led your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with miracles, by a fortified hand, and by a high arm, and by great visions.
32:22And you gave to them this land which you swore by an oath to their fathers; a land flowing milk and honey.
32:23And they entered and took it. And they hearkened not to your voice, and they did not go by your orders. All which you charged to them, they did not do. And they caused all these bad things to come to pass to them.
32:24Behold, a multitude is come unto the city to seize it, and the city was given into the hands of Chaldeans waging war against it, by the face of the sword, and famine, and pestilence. As you said so it happened; and behold, you see.
32:25And you say to me, Acquire to yourself the field with silver, and take testimony of witnesses! And the city was given into the hands of Chaldeans.
32:26And came to pass the word of the lord to me, saying,
32:27I am the lord God of all flesh. Shall anything be hidden from me?
32:28On account of this, thus said the lord; In granting, this city shall be delivered up into the hands of Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
32:29And the Chaldeans shall come waging war against this city; and they shall burn this city by fire, and shall incinerate the houses in which they burned incense upon their roofs to Baal, and offered libations to other gods, to greatly embitter me.
32:30For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were alone doing the wicked thing in front of my eyes from their youth. The sons of Israel were the ones greatly embittering me in the works of their hands, says the lord.
32:31For this city was for my anger and for my rage from which day they built it, and unto this day, to rid it from my face;
32:32because of all the wickedness of the sons of Israel and Judah, which they did to embitter me, they, and their kings, and their rulers, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the ones dwelling in Jerusalem.
32:33And they turned their back to me, and not their face. And I taught them at dawn, and they hearkened not to take instruction.
32:34And they put their defilements in the house which my name was called upon by them in their uncleannesses.
32:35And they built the shrines to Baal, the ones in the ravine of the son of Hinnom, to offer their sons and their daughters to Molech; which I ordered not to them, and it ascended not unto my heart to do this abomination, to seduce Judah to sin.
32:36And now, thus said the lord God of Israel against this city, which you say, It shall be delivered up into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence.
32:37Behold, I will gather them from out of all the land of which I scattered them there in my anger, and in my rage, and a great fit of temper. And I will return them unto this place; and I will settle them having secured them.
32:38And they will be to me for a people, and I will be to them for God.
32:39And I will give to them another way and another heart, to fear me all the days, and for good to them and their children after them.
32:40And I will ordain with them an everlasting covenant which in no way shall I turn behind them. And I will put my fear in their heart, to not separate them from me.
32:41And I will visit them to do good to them. And I will plant them in this land in trust, even with all my heart, and with all my soul.
32:42For thus said the lord, As I brought upon this people all these great bad things, so I will bring upon them all the good things which I spoke unto them.
32:43And there shall be acquired still fields in the land, in which you say, It is untrodden of men and beast; and they were delivered up into the hands of Chaldeans.
32:44And they shall acquire fields with silver; and you shall write in a scroll, and shall set a seal upon it, and shall take 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 Sephela, and in the cities of the Negev. For I shall return their resettlement, says the lord.