Jeremiah 32:27–44

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

²⁸Therefore thus says the Lord, “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 take it.

²⁹“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 offered 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 the Lord.

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 leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

³³“They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, ^1ateaching again and again, they would not listen ²and receive instruction.

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

³⁵“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 ¹entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

³⁶“Now therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, ‘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 driven them in My anger, in My wrath and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and ^bmake them dwell in safety.

³⁸“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“I will make 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“I will ^arejoice over them to do them good and will ¹faithfully ^bplant them in this land with ^call My heart and with all My soul.

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

⁴³‘^aFields will be bought in this land of which you say, “^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 environs of Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the ²Negev; for I will ^crestore their ³fortunes,’ declares the Lord.”