Jeremiah 32:1–15

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord ^ain the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, ^bwhich was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. ²For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was ^cshut up ^din ^ethe court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house. ³For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, ^fBehold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and ^ghe shall take it; ^4hand Zedekiah king of Judah ⁱshall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, ^hand shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes ^hshall behold his eyes: ⁵and ^hjkhe shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be ^kuntil I visit him, saith the Lord: ^lthough ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

⁶And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ⁷Behold, Hanameel the son of ^mShallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in ⁿAnathoth: for ^othe right of redemption is thine to buy it. ⁸So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me ^din 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 ⁿAnathoth, 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. ⁹And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in ⁿAnathoth, and ^pweighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. ¹⁰And I subscribed the evidence, and ^qsealed it, and ^rtook witnesses, and ^pweighed him the money in the balances. ¹¹So I took the evidence of the purchase, both ^sthat which was sealed according to the law and ^tcustom, and ^sthat which was open: ¹²and I gave the evidence of the purchase unto ^uBaruch ^vthe son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of ^rthe witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat ^din the court of the prison. ¹³And I charged ^uBaruch before them, saying, ¹⁴Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, ^sboth which is sealed, and ^sthis evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days. ¹⁵For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and ^wfields and vineyards shall be ^xpossessed again in this land.