Add parallel Print Page Options

42 For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. 43 Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ 44 Men will buy fields for money, 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 lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed,” says Yahweh.

Read full chapter

42 “For this is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all this terrible disaster on these people,(A) so am I about to bring on them all the good I am promising them. 43 Fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying,(B) ‘It’s a desolation(C) without people or animals; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans!’ 44 Fields will be purchased, the transaction written on a scroll and sealed,(D) and witnesses will be called on in the land of Benjamin,(E) in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in Judah’s cities—the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, and the cities of the Negev—because I will restore their fortunes.”[a]

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 32:44 Or will end their captivity