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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 32
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
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.
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.
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.
And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses:
and I weighed him the money in the balances.
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.
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.
And I charged Baruch before them, saying:
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.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
Houses, and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed
again in this land.
And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch
the son of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
And best given them this land which thou didst swear
to their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk
and honey.
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.
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.
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?
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any
thing be hard for me?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And they have set their idols in the house, in which
my name is called upon, to defile it.
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.
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 :
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.
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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