Jeremiah 32:27–44

²⁷Behold, I am the Lord, ^xthe God of all flesh: ^bis there any thing too hard for me? ²⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord; ^yBehold, 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: ²⁹and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and ^zburn it with the houses, ^aupon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and ^apoured out drink offerings unto other gods, ^bto provoke me to anger. ³⁰For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me ^gfrom their youth: for the children of Israel have only ^bprovoked me to anger ^hwith the work of their hands, saith the Lord. ³¹For 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; ⁱthat I should remove it from before my face, ³²because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done ^bto provoke me to anger, ^kthey, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ³³And ^lthey have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, ^mrising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened ⁿto receive instruction. ³⁴But ^othey set their abominations in the house, ^owhich is called by my name, ^oto defile it. ^35pAnd they built the high places of Baal, ^pwhich are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, ^qto cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; ^pwhich I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, ^rto cause Judah to sin.

³⁶And now therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, ^sIt shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon ^sby the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; ³⁷behold, ^tI will gather them out of all countries, ^uwhither I have driven them ^vin mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them ^wto dwell safely: ³⁸and ^xthey shall be my people, and I will be their God: ³⁹and I ^xywill give them one heart, and one way, ^zthat they may fear me for ever, ^zfor the good of them, and of their children after them: ⁴⁰and ^abI will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but ^bI will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. ⁴¹Yea, ^cI will rejoice over them to do them good, and ^dI will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. ⁴²For thus saith the Lord; ^eLike as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, ^eso will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. ⁴³And ^ffields shall be bought in this land, ^gwhereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; ^hit is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. ⁴⁴Men shall buy fields for money, and ⁱsubscribe evidences, and ⁱseal them, and ⁱtake witnesses in ^kthe land of Benjamin, and in ^kthe places about Jerusalem, and in ^kthe cities of Judah, and in the cities of ^kthe mountains, and in the cities of ^kthe valley, and in the cities of ^kthe south: for ^lI will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord.

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