Jeremiah Purchases a Field

32 This is^[a] the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of the reign of^[b] Zedekiah, king of Judah. It was the eighteenth year of the reign of^[c] Nebuchadnezzar. ² The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard at the palace of the king of Judah ³ where Zedekiah had confined him. Zedekiah had said,^[d] “Why did you prophesy and say these things? You said,^[e] ‘This is what the Lord says: “I’m about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. ⁴ Zedekiah, king of Judah, won’t escape from^[f] the Chaldeans, for he has surely been given over to the king of Babylon. He will speak to him face to face and look at him eye to eye. ⁵ The king of Babylon^[g] will take Zedekiah to Babylon and there he will stay until I judge him,” declares the Lord. “If you fight against the Chaldeans, you won’t succeed.”’”