Jeremiah 32:1–15

Jeremiah Imprisoned

¹The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the ^atenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

²Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the ^acourt of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,

³because Zedekiah king of Judah had ^ashut him up, saying, “Why do you ^bprophesy, saying, ‘^cThus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to ^dgive this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

⁴and Zedekiah king of Judah will ^anot escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will ^bspeak with him ¹face to face and see him eye to eye;

⁵and he will ^atake Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” declares the Lord. “If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will ^bnot succeed” ’?”

⁶And Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

⁷‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, “Buy for yourself my field which is at ^aAnathoth, for you have the ^bright of redemption to buy it.” ’

⁸“Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the ^acourt of the guard according to the word of the Lord and said to me, ‘Buy my field, please, that is at ^bAnathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the right of possession and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the ^cword of the Lord.

⁹“I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I ^aweighed out the silver for him, seventeen ^bshekels of silver.

¹⁰“I ^1asigned and ^bsealed the deed, and ^ccalled in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

¹¹“Then I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the ^aterms and conditions and the open copy;

¹²and I gave the deed of purchase to ^aBaruch the son of ^bNeriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle’s son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

¹³“And I commanded Baruch in their presence, saying,

¹⁴‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may ¹last a long time.”

¹⁵‘For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “^aHouses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.” ’