Jeremiah 32:27–44

²⁷“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind.^e Is anything too hard for me?^{f 28}Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar^g king of Babylon, who will capture it.^{h 29}The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down,ⁱ along with the houses^j where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings^k to other gods.^l

³⁰“The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth;^m indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my angerⁿ with what their hands have made,^o declares the Lord. ³¹From the day it was built until now, this city^p has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove^q it from my sight. ³²The people of Israel and Judah have provoked^r me by all the evil^s they have done—they, their kings and officials,^t their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem. ³³They turned their backs^u to me and not their faces; though I taught^v them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.^{w 34}They set up their vile images^x in the house that bears my Name^y and defiled^z it. ³⁵They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom^a to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek,^b though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind^c—that they should do such a detestable^d thing and so make Judah sin.^e

³⁶“You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague^f it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ³⁷I will surely gather^g them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger^h and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.^{i 38}They will be my people,^j and I will be their God. ³⁹I will give them singleness^k of heart and action, so that they will always fear^l me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them. ⁴⁰I will make an everlasting covenant^m with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspireⁿ them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.^{o 41}I will rejoice^p in doing them good^q and will assuredly plant^r them in this land with all my heart and soul.^s

⁴²“This is what the Lord says: As I have brought all this great calamity^t on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised^u them. ⁴³Once more fields will be bought^v in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate^w waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’ ⁴⁴Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds^x will be signed, sealed and witnessed^y in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev,^z because I will restore^a their fortunes,^c declares the Lord.”