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42 “This is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all these calamities on them, so I will do all the good I have promised them. 43 Fields will again be bought and sold in this land about which you now say, ‘It has been ravaged by the Babylonians, a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared.’ 44 Yes, fields will once again be bought and sold—deeds signed and sealed and witnessed—in the land of Benjamin and here in Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the hill country, in the foothills of Judah[a] and in the Negev, too. For someday I will restore prosperity to them. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

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  1. 32:44 Hebrew the Shephelah.

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”