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chapter 32
1
The
word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth year of Sedecias king of
Juda: the same is eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor.
2 At that time the army of the king o Babylon besieged
Jerusalem: and Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison,
which was in the house of the king of Juda.
3 For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying:
Why dost thou prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?
4 And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the
hand of the Chaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands of the king of
Babylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his
eyes.
5 And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and he shall
be there till I visit him, saith the Lord. But if you will fight against the
Chaldeans, you shall have no success.
6 And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall
come to thee, saying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy
right to buy it, being akin.
8 And Hanameel my uncle's son cam to me, according to
the word of the to the entry of the prison, and said me: Buy my held, which is
in in the land of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thins, and thou art
next of kin to possess it. And I understood this was the word of the Lord.
9 And I bought the held of my uncle's son, that is in
Anathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of silver.
10 And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took
witnesses: and I weighed him the money in the balances.
11 And I took the deed of the purchase that was sealed,
and the stipulations, and the ratifications with the seals that were on the
outside.
12 And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the
son of Neri the son of Maasias in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's son, in the
presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, and before
all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying:
14 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take
these writings, this deed of the purchase that is sealed up, and this deed that
is open: and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
Houses, and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
16 And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to
Baruch the son of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:
17 Alas, alas, alas, 0 Lord God, behold thou hast made
heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall
be hard to thee:
18 Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most
mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.
19 Great in counsel and incomprehensible in thought:
whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto
every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.
20 Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt
even until this day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name
as at this day.
21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the
land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a
stretched out arm, and with great terror.
22 And best given them this land which thou didst swear
to their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.
23 And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed
not thy voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those
things that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come upon
them.
24 Behold works are built up against the city to take
it: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against
it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast
spoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.
25 And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for
money, and take witnesses, whereas the city is given into the hands of the
Chaldeans?
26 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
27 Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any
thing be hard for me?
28 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver
this city into the hands of the Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of
Babylon, and they shall take it.
29 And the Chaldeans that fight against this city,
shall come and set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs
they offered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange gods,
to provoke me to wrath.
30 For the children of Israel, and the children of
Juda, have continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of
Israel who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith the
Lord.
31 For this city hath been to me a provocation and
indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall
be taken out of my sight.
32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel,
and of the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they
and their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men
of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 And they have turned their backs to me, and not
their faces: when I taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and
they would not hearken to receive instruction.
34 And they have set their idols in the house, in which
my name is called upon, to defile it.
35 And they have built the high places of Baal, which
are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their
daughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it into my
heart, that they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to sin.
36 And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of
Israel to this city, whereof you say that it shall be delivered into the hands
of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence :
37 Behold I will gather them together out of all the
lands to which I have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my
great indignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will cause
them to dwell securely.
38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their
God.
39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that
they may fear me all days : and that it may be well with them, and with their
children after them.
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them,
and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart,
that they may not revolt from me.
41 And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them
good: and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and
with all my soul.
42 For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this
people all this great evil: so will I bring upon them all the good that I now
speak to them.
43 And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof
you say that it is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and
it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
44 Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be
written, and sealed, and witnesses shall be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and
round about Jerusalem, in the cities of Juda, and in the cities on the
mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards
the south: for I will bring their captivity, saith the Lord.
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