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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”

42 “For thus says the Lord: (A)Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them. 43 (B)Fields shall be bought in this land (C)of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; (D)it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ 44 Fields shall be bought for money, and (E)deeds shall be signed and (F)sealed and (G)witnessed, (H)in the land of Benjamin, (I)in the places about Jerusalem, (J)and in the cities of Judah, (K)in the cities of the hill country, (L)in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for (M)I will restore their fortunes, declares the Lord.”

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