Jeremiah 32:27–44

²⁷“Behold, I am Yahweh, the ^aGod of all flesh; is anything ^btoo difficult for Me?”

²⁸Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to ^agive this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

²⁹“And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and ^aset this city on fire and burn it, with the ^bhouses where people have burned incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

³⁰“Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only ^aevil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only ^bprovoking Me to anger by the work of their hands,” declares Yahweh.

³¹“Indeed this city has been to Me a ^aprovocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be ^bremoved from before My face

³²because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their ^akings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

³³“And they have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, ^arising up early and teaching, they would not listen ¹and receive discipline.

³⁴“But they ^aput their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

³⁵“And they built the ^ahigh places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to ^bMolech, which I had not commanded them, nor had it come upon My heart that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

³⁶“So now, therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you are saying, ‘It is ^agiven into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence.’

³⁷“Behold, I will ^agather them out of all the lands to which I have banished them in My anger, in My wrath, and in great indignation; and I will cause them to return to this place and ^bmake them inhabit it in safety.

³⁸“And they shall be ^aMy people, and I will be their God;

³⁹and I will ^agive them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own ^bgood and for the good of their children after them.

⁴⁰“And I will cut an ^aeverlasting covenant with them that I will ^bnot turn away from them, to do them good; and I will ^cput the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me.

⁴¹“And I will ^arejoice over them to do them good and will truly ^bplant them in this land with ^call My heart and with all My soul.

⁴²“For thus says Yahweh, ‘^aJust as I brought all this great evil on this people, so I am going to ^bbring on them all the good that I am promising them.

⁴³‘^aThus fields will be bought in this land of which you all are saying, “^bIt is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

⁴⁴‘Men will buy fields for money, ^1asign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the ^bland of Benjamin, in the surroundings of Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the ²Shephelah, and in the cities of the ³Negev; for I will ^4creturn their ⁵fortunes,’ declares Yahweh.”