![]() 24 Look! Siege ramps ( W) have come against the city to capture it, and the city, as a result of the sword, famine, and plague, has been handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. ( U) They failed to perform all You commanded them to do, ( V) and so You have brought all this disaster on them. ( T) 23 They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or live according to Your instructions. ( S) 22 You gave them this land You swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey. ![]() 21 You brought Your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror. You made a name ( R) for Yourself, as is the case today. ( P) 20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt ( Q) and do so to this very day both in Israel and among mankind. Nothing is too difficult for You! 18 You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ sins on their sons’ laps after them, ( N) great and mighty God ( O) whose name is Yahweh of Hosts, 19 the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men in order to give to each person according to his ways and the result of his deeds. 15 For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’ ( K)ġ6 “After I had given the purchase agreement to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord: 17 Oh, Lord God! You Yourself made the heavens and earth ( L) by Your great power ( M) and with Your outstretched arm. I did this in the sight of my cousin Hanamel, the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement, and all the Judeans sitting in the guard’s courtyard.ġ3 “I instructed Baruch in their sight, 14 ‘This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these scrolls-this purchase agreement with the sealed copy and this open copy-and put them in an earthen storage jar so they will last a long time. 11 I took the purchase agreement-the sealed copy with its terms and conditions and the open copy- 12 and gave the purchase agreement to Baruch ( J) son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah. 10 I recorded it on a scroll, ( I) sealed it, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver in the scales. ![]() 9 So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out to him the money ( H)-17 shekels of silver. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. ‘You will fight the Chaldeans, but you will not succeed’?” ( E)Ħ Jeremiah replied, “The word of the Lord came to me: 7 Watch! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy my field in Anathoth ( F) for yourself, for you own the right of redemption ( G) to buy it.’Ĩ “Then my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard as the Lord had said and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. ( D) 5 He will take Zedekiah to Babylon where he will stay until I attend to him’-this is the Lord’s declaration. They will speak face to face and meet eye to eye. 4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the Chaldeans indeed, he will certainly be handed over to Babylon’s king. 3 Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, I am about to hand this city over to Babylon’s king, and he will capture it. ( B) 2 At that time, the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the guard’s courtyard ( C) in the palace of the king of Judah. 32 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah ( A) king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
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