Jeremiah 32:1-15

Revised Geneva Translation

32 The Word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

² For then, the king of Babel’s host besieged Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the Prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

³ For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babel, and he shall take it.

⁴ “And Zedekiah, the king of Judah, shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hands of the king of Babel, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth. And his eyes shall behold his face,

⁵ “And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babel. And there he shall be until I visit him,” says the LORD. “Though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper.”’?”

⁶ And Jeremiah said, “The Word of the LORD came to me, saying,

⁷ “Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, shall come to you and say, ‘Buy my field for yourself, which is in Anathoth. For the right of redemption is yours, to buy it.’

⁸ “So Hanamel, my uncle’s son, came to me in the court of the prison, according to the Word of the LORD, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field which is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin. For the right of the possession is yours, and the purchase yours. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the Word of the LORD.

⁹ “And I bought the field from Hanamel, my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and measured out to him the silver: seventeen shekels.

¹⁰ “And I wrote it in the book and signed it, and took witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

¹¹ “So I took the deed of purchase, being sealed according to the Law and custom, with the deed that was open.

¹² “And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel, my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses written in the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.

¹³ “And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

¹⁴ ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Take the writings, this deed of purchase that is sealed and the deed that is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, so that they may last a long time.”

¹⁵ ‘For the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says thus: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.”’