Jeremiah 32:26-42

New American Standard Bible

²⁶ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁷ “Behold, I am the Lord, the ^(A)God of all flesh; is anything ^(B)too difficult for Me?” ²⁸ Therefore this is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am going to ^(C)hand this city over to the Chaldeans and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it. ²⁹ And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and ^(D)set this city on fire and burn it, with the ^(E)houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger. ³⁰ For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only ^(F)evil in My sight since their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only ^(G)provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands,” declares the Lord. ³¹ “Indeed this city has been to Me a ^(H)provocation of My anger and My wrath since the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be ^(I)removed from My sight, ³² because 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 ^(J)kings, 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, ^(K)teaching again and again, they would not listen to accept discipline. ³⁴ But they ^(L)put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. ³⁵ They built the ^(M)high places of Baal that are in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and their daughters pass through the fire to ^(N)Molech, which I had not commanded them, nor had it ^[a]entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to mislead Judah to sin.

³⁶ “Now therefore the Lord God of Israel says the following concerning this city of which you say, ‘It has been ^(O)handed over to the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by plague’: ³⁷ Behold, I am going to ^(P)gather 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 ^(Q)have them live in safety. ³⁸ They shall be ^(R)My people, and I will be their God; ³⁹ and I will ^(S)give them one heart and one way, so that they will fear Me always, for their own ^(T)good and for the good of their children after them. ⁴⁰ I will make an ^(U)everlasting covenant with them that I will ^(V)not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will ^(W)put the fear of Me in their hearts, so that they will not turn away from Me. ⁴¹ I will ^(X)rejoice over them to do them good and will ^[b]faithfully ^(Y)plant them in this land with ^(Z)all My heart and all My soul. ⁴² For this is what the Lord says: ‘^(AA)Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to ^(AB)bring on them all the good that I am promising them.