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1 The word that came to Jeremi­ah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah, which was the eigh­teenth year of Neb­uchadrez­zar. 2 For then the king of Babylon's army be­sieged Jerusalem: and Jeremi­ah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house. 3 For Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah had shut him up, say­ing, Where­fore dost thou proph­esy, and say, 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 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; 5 And he shall lead Zedeki­ah to Baby­lon, and there shall he be un­til I vis­it him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not pros­per. 6 And Jeremi­ah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 7 Be­hold, Hanameel the son of Shal­lum thine un­cle shall come unto thee, say­ing, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of re­demp­tion is thine to buy it. 8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the coun­try of Ben­jamin: for the right of in­her­i­tance is thine, and the re­demp­tion is thine; buy it for thy­self. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the mon­ey, even sev­en­teen shekels of sil­ver. 10 And I sub­scribed the ev­i­dence, and sealed it, and took wit­ness­es, and weighed him the mon­ey in the bal­ances. 11 So I took the ev­i­dence of the pur­chase, both that which was sealed according to the law and cus­tom, and that which was open: 12 And I gave the ev­i­dence of the pur­chase unto Baruch the son of Ne­r­i­ah, the son of Maa­seiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the pres­ence of the wit­ness­es that sub­scribed the book of the pur­chase, 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 ev­i­dences, this ev­i­dence of the pur­chase, both which is sealed, and this ev­i­dence which 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 Now when I had de­liv­ered the ev­i­dence of the pur­chase unto Baruch the son of Ne­r­i­ah, I prayed unto the LORD, say­ing, 17 Ah Lord GOD! be­hold, thou hast made the heav­en and the earth by thy great pow­er and stretched out arm, and there is noth­ing too hard for thee: 18 Thou shewest lov­ingkind­ness unto thou­sands, and rec­om­pens­est the in­iq­ui­ty of the fa­thers into the bo­som of their chil­dren af­ter them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, 19 Great in coun­sel, and mighty in work: for thine 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: 20 Which hast set signs and won­ders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Is­rael, and among other 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 with a stretched out arm, and with great ter­ror; 22 And hast 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, nei­ther walked in thy law; they have done noth­ing of all that thou com­mand­edst them to do: there­fore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them: 24 Be­hold the mounts, they are come unto 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 thou hast spo­ken is come to pass; and, be­hold, thou seest it. 25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for mon­ey, and take wit­ness­es; for the city is giv­en into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremi­ah, say­ing, 27 Be­hold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? 28 There­fore thus saith the LORD; 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: 29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the hous­es, upon whose roofs they have of­fered in­cense unto Baal, and poured out drink of­fer­ings unto oth­er gods, to pro­voke me to anger. 30 For the chil­dren of Is­rael and the chil­dren of Ju­dah have only done evil be­fore me from their youth: for the chil­dren of Is­rael have only pro­voked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD. 31 For this city hath been to me as a provo­ca­tion of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should re­move it from be­fore my face, 32 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. 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, ris­ing up ear­ly and teach­ing them, yet they have not hear­kened to re­ceive in­struc­tion. 34 But they set their abom­i­na­tions in the house, which is called by my name, to de­file it. 35 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 unto Molech; which I com­mand­ed them not, nei­ther came it into my mind, that they should do this abom­i­na­tion, to cause Ju­dah to sin. 36 And now there­fore thus saith the LORD, the God of Is­rael, con­cern­ing this city, where­of ye say, It shall be de­liv­ered into the hand of the king of Baby­lon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pesti­lence; 37 Be­hold, I will gath­er them out of all coun­tries, whith­er I have driv­en them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safe­ly: 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 for ev­er, for the good of them, and of their chil­dren af­ter them: 40 And I will make an ev­er­last­ing covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not de­part from me. 41 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. 42 For thus saith the LORD; 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. 43 And fields shall be bought in this land, where­of ye say, It is des­o­late with­out man or beast; it is giv­en into the hand of the Chaldeans. 44 Men shall buy fields for mon­ey, and sub­scribe ev­i­dences, and seal them, and take wit­ness­es in the land of Ben­jamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Ju­dah, and in the cities of the moun­tains, and in the cities of the val­ley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their cap­tiv­i­ty to re­turn, saith the LORD.