Jer 32
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The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah,
which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
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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.
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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore do you prophesy, and
say, Thus says YHWH, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall take it;
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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 behold his eyes;
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and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says
YHWH: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper?
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And Jeremiah said, The word of YHWH came to me, saying,
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Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy you my
field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.
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So Hanamel mine uncle`s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the
word of YHWH, and said to me, Buy my field, I pray you, 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 the word of YHWH.
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And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle`s son, and weighed
him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
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And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the
money in the balances.
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So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, [according to] the
law and custom, and that which was open:
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and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah,
in the presence of Hanamel mine uncle`s [son], and in the presence of the witnesses
that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court
of the guard.
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And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
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Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: 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.
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For thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall
yet again be bought in this land.
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Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I
prayed to YHWH, saying,
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Ah Lord YHWH! 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,
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who show lovingkindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into
the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, YHWH of hosts is
his name;
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great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the
sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of
his doings:
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who did set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel
and among [other] men; and made you a name, as at this day;
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and did bring forth 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;
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and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land
flowing with milk and honey;
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and they came in, and possessed it, but they obeyed not 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.
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Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into
the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the
famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken is come to pass; and, behold,
you see it.
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And you have said to me, O Lord YHWH, Buy you the field for money, and call witnesses;
whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
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Then came the word of YHWH to Jeremiah, saying,
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Behold, I am YHWH, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
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Therefore thus says YHWH: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
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and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire,
and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal,
and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
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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 YHWH.
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For this city has been to me a provocation of mine anger and of my anger from the
day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
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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.
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And 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 hearkened to receive instruction.
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But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile
it.
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And 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 [the fire] to Molech; which
I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination,
to cause Judah to sin.
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And now therefore thus says YHWH, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof
you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the
famine, and by the pestilence:
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Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in mine
anger, and in my anger, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this
place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
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and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
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and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the
good of them, and of their children after them:
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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.
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Yea, 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.
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For thus says YHWH: Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so
will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
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And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof you say, It is desolate, without
man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
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Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe 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 cause their captivity to return, says YHWH.