1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.[ † ]2 Kings 25:1-2Jeremiah 39:1-2 2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.[ † ]Nehemiah 3:25Jeremiah 33:1Jeremiah 37:21Jeremiah 39:14
3For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the Lord says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.[ † ]Jeremiah 26:8-9Jeremiah 21:3-7Jeremiah 34:2 4Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.[ † ]2 Kings 25:4-7Jeremiah 34:3Jeremiah 38:18-23Jeremiah 39:5Jeremiah 52:9 5He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the Lord. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”[ † ]Jeremiah 27:22Jeremiah 39:7Ezekiel 12:12-13Jeremiah 21:4Jeremiah 33:5
6Jeremiah replied, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying: 7Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’[ † ]Leviticus 25:24-25, 32Ruth 4:4
8Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
9So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.[ † ]Genesis 23:16Zechariah 11:12 10I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. 11Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy— 12and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.[ † ]Jeremiah 36:4Isaiah 8:2
13In their sight I instructed Baruch,[ † ]Jeremiah 36:4 14“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time. 15For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”[ † ]Ezra 2:1Jeremiah 31:5-12, 14Amos 9:14-15Zechariah 3:10
16After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord: 17“Oh, Lord God! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You![ † ]2 Kings 19:15Psalms 102:25Isaiah 40:26-29Jeremiah 27:5Genesis 18:14Jeremiah 32:27Zechariah 8:6Matthew 19:26Mark 10:27Luke 18:27
18You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of Hosts,[ † ]Exodus 20:6Exodus 34:7Deuteronomy 5:9-10Psalms 50:1Isaiah 9:6Jeremiah 20:11Jeremiah 10:16 19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.[ † ]Isaiah 28:29Job 34:21Psalms 33:13Proverbs 5:21Jeremiah 16:17Psalms 62:12Jeremiah 17:10Matthew 16:27John 5:29
20You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.[ † ]Exodus 9:161 Chronicles 17:21Isaiah 63:12Jeremiah 13:11Daniel 9:15
21You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.[ † ]Exodus 6:62 Samuel 7:231 Chronicles 17:21Psalms 136:11-12 22You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.[ † ]Exodus 3:8-17Deuteronomy 1:8Psalms 105:9-11Jeremiah 11:5
23They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.[ † ]Nehemiah 9:26Jeremiah 11:8Daniel 9:10-14 24See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see![ † ]Jeremiah 14:12Ezekiel 14:21
25Yet You, O Lord God, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
26Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 27“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?[ † ]Numbers 16:22
28Therefore this is what the Lord says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it. 29And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:19Jeremiah 21:10Jeremiah 37:8-10Jeremiah 52:13Jeremiah 19:13
30For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the Lord.[ † ]Deuteronomy 9:7-12Isaiah 63:10Jeremiah 2:7Jeremiah 3:25Jeremiah 7:22-26Ezekiel 20:28
31For this city has aroused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. Therefore I will remove it from My presence[ † ]2 Kings 23:272 Kings 24:3Jeremiah 27:10 32because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.[ † ]Ezra 9:7Isaiah 1:4-6Daniel 9:8Jeremiah 23:14 33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.[ † ]Jeremiah 2:27Jeremiah 7:24Jeremiah 7:13
34They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.[ † ]2 Kings 21:1-7Jeremiah 7:10-12, 30Jeremiah 23:11Ezekiel 8:5-6 35They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.[ † ]2 Chronicles 28:2-32 Chronicles 33:6Jeremiah 7:31Jeremiah 19:5Leviticus 18:211 Kings 11:332 Kings 23:10Acts 7:43
36Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 37I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.[ † ]Deuteronomy 30:3Jeremiah 23:3Jeremiah 29:14Jeremiah 31:10Jeremiah 50:19Ezekiel 37:21Jeremiah 33:16 38They will be My people, and I will be their God.[ † ]Jeremiah 24:7Jeremiah 30:22Jeremiah 31:33 39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.[ † ]Jeremiah 24:7Ezekiel 11:19
40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.[ † ]Isaiah 55:3Jeremiah 31:31Ezekiel 37:26Deuteronomy 31:6-8Ezekiel 39:29Jeremiah 31:33 41Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.[ † ]Deuteronomy 30:9Isaiah 62:5Isaiah 65:19Zephaniah 3:17Jeremiah 24:6Jeremiah 31:28Amos 9:15
42For this is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.[ † ]Jeremiah 31:28Zechariah 8:14-15 43And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’[ † ]Jeremiah 33:10 44Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the Lord.”[ † ]Jeremiah 17:26Jeremiah 33:7-11