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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 32 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/32.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/32-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Jeremiah 32</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/31.htm" title="Jeremiah 31">◄</a> Jeremiah 32 <a href="../jeremiah/33.htm" title="Jeremiah 33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/32.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jeremiah Buys a Field During the Siege</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word that came to Jeremiah from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’?”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jeremiah said, “The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.’</p> <p class="heading">Jeremiah Prays for Understanding</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>‘Ah, Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Yet you, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, have said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Jeremiah: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“Behold, I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Therefore, thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.</p> <p class="heading">They Shall Be My People; I Will Be Their God</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>“Now therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>“For thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/32-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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