Jeremiah 32:1-19

Jeremiah Buys a Field at Anathoth

32¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah , which was the eighteenth e year of Nebuchadnezzar . ² Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging e Jerusalem , and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard , which was in the house of the king of Judah , ³ because Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying , "Why do you prophesy , saying , ' Thus says the Lord , "Behold , I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon , and he will take it; ⁴ and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans , but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon , and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye ; ⁵ and he will take Zedekiah to Babylon , and he will be there until I visit him," declares the Lord . "If you fight against the Chaldeans , you will not succeed "'?" ⁶ And Jeremiah said , "The word of the Lord came to me, saying , ⁷ 'Behold , Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying , "Buy for yourself my field which is at Anathoth , for you have the right of redemption to buy it."' ⁸ "Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the Lord and said to me, 'Buy my field , please , that is at Anathoth , which is in the land of Benjamin ; for you have the right of possession and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord . ⁹ "I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son , and I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen e shekels of silver . ¹⁰ "I signed and sealed the deed , and called in witnesses , and weighed out the silver on the scales . ¹¹ "Then I took the deeds of purchase , both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the open copy; ¹² and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah , the son of Mahseiah , in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase , before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard . ¹³ "And I commanded Baruch in their presence , saying , ¹⁴ 'Thus says the Lord of hosts , the God of Israel , "Take these deeds , this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed , and put them in an earthenware jar , that they may last a long time ." ¹⁵ 'For thus says the Lord of hosts , the God of Israel , " Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land ."'

¹⁶ "After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah , then I prayed to the Lord , saying , ¹⁷ ' Ah Lord GOD ! Behold , You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm ! Nothing e e is too difficult for You, ¹⁸ who shows lovingkindness to thousands , but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God . The Lord of hosts is His name ; ¹⁹ great in counsel and mighty in deed , whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men , giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds ;