Jeremiah 32:6-27

Names of God Bible

⁶ Jeremiah said, “Yahweh spoke his word to me. He said, ⁷ ‘Jeremiah, your cousin Hanamel, son of Shallum, is going to come to you and say, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth, because as the closest relative it is your responsibility to buy it.” ’

⁸ “Then, as Yahweh had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the prison. He said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. It is your responsibility to purchase it, because the rights of the closest relative belong to you. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that Yahweh had spoken to me.

⁹ “So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and gave him the money. The field cost seven ounces of silver. ¹⁰ I signed the deed, sealed it, had people witness the signing of the deed, and paid out the silver. ¹¹ Then I took the sealed copy of the deed, containing the terms and conditions, as well as an unsealed copy. ¹² I gave the copies of the deeds to Baruch, son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I did this in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who had signed the deed and in the presence of all the Jews who were sitting in the courtyard of the prison. ¹³ Then I gave Baruch these orders: ¹⁴ ‘This is what Yahweh Tsebaoth, the Elohim of Israel, says: Take both of these documents, both the sealed and the unsealed copies of the deed. Put them in a clay jar so that they will last a long time. ¹⁵ This is what Yahweh Tsebaoth, the Elohim of Israel, says: My people will again buy houses, fields, and vineyards in this land.’

¹⁶ “After I had given the copies to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh. I prayed, ¹⁷ ‘Adonay Yahweh, you made heaven and earth by your great strength and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you. ¹⁸ You show mercy to thousands of generations. However, you punish children for the wickedness of their parents. You, El, are great and mighty. Your name is Yahweh Tsebaoth. ¹⁹ You make wise plans and do mighty things. You see everything the descendants of Adam do. You reward them for the way they live and for what they do. ²⁰ You performed miraculous signs and amazing things in Egypt. To this day you are still doing them in Israel. You made a name for yourself that continues to this day. ²¹ You brought your people from Egypt with miraculous signs and amazing things, with a mighty hand and a powerful arm, and with great terror. ²² You gave them the land that you swore with an oath to give their ancestors, the land flowing with milk and honey. ²³ They entered and took possession of it. However, they refused to obey you or to follow your teachings. They didn’t do anything you commanded them to do, so you brought all this disaster on them.

²⁴ “‘See how the dirt ramps have been built up around the city to capture it! Because of wars, famines, and plagues, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians who are attacking it. What you have threatened to do has happened, as you can see. ²⁵ Yet you, Adonay Yahweh, told me to buy a field with money and get witnesses to confirm it, although the city was handed over to the Babylonians.’”

²⁶ Yahweh spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said, ²⁷ “I am Yahweh Elohim of all humanity. Nothing is too hard for me.