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42 This is what the Lord says. Just as surely as I brought this great catastrophe on this people, so I will be the one to bring them all the good that I have promised them. 43 Once again fields will be purchased in this land, which you say is desolate, without man or animal, and which you say is handed over to the Chaldeans. 44 Men will buy fields for silver, sign the deeds, seal them, and call witnesses in the land of Benjamin and in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev. I will restore them from their captivity, declares the Lord.

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42 “For thus says Yahweh, ‘Just as I have brought to this people all this great disaster, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise to them. 43 And the fields[a] will be bought in this land of which you are saying, “It is a desolation, without humankind or animals.[b] It has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.” 44 They will buy fields with money, and they will sign the deeds,[c] and they will seal them,[d] and they will call witnesses as witness in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, for I will restore their fortunes,’[e] declares[f] Yahweh.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:43 Hebrew “field”
  2. Jeremiah 32:43 Literally “from there is not humankind and animal”
  3. Jeremiah 32:44 Hebrew “scroll”
  4. Jeremiah 32:44 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Jeremiah 32:44 Hebrew “fortune”
  6. Jeremiah 32:44 Literally “a declaration of”