Jeremiah 39
1 The word that came from the Lord to
Jeremiah in the tenth year of king Sedekias, this is the eighteenth year of
king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.
2 And the host of the king of Babylon
had made a rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremiah was kept in the court of
the prison, which is in the king's house;
3 in which king Sedekias
had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou
prophesy, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I
will give this city into the hands of the king of
Babylon, and he shall take it; 4 and
Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for
he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his
mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;
5 and Sedekias shall go into Babylon,
and dwell there?
6 And the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
7 Behold, Anameel the son of Salom thy
father's brother is coming to thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in
Anathoth: for thou hast the right to take
it as a purchase.
8 So Anameel the son of Salom my
father's brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy thee
my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for thou
hast a right to buy it, and thou art the elder. So I
knew that it was the word of the Lord.
9 And I bought the field of Anameel
the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.
10 And I wrote
it in a book, and sealed it,
and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.
11 And I took the book of the
purchase that was sealed; 12 and I
gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasæas, in the sight of Anameel my
father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in
the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court
of the prison. 13 And I charged
Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty;
14 Take this book of the purchase,
and the book that has been read; and thou shalt put it into an earthen vessel,
that it may remain many days. 15 For
thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be bought fields and houses and vineyards
in this land.
16 And I prayed to the Lord after I
had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Nerias, saying,
17 O
ever living Lord! thou hast made the heaven and the
earth by thy great power, and with thy high and lofty arm: nothing can be
hidden from thee. 18 Granting mercy
to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of
their children after them: the great, the strong God;
19 the Lord of great counsel, and
mighty in deeds, the great Almighty God, and Lord of great name: thine eyes
are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to every one according to
his way: 20 who hast wrought signs
and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and among
the inhabitants of the earth; and thou didst make for thyself a name, as at
this day; 21 and thou didst bring out
thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with
a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights;
22 and thou gavest them this land,
which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a
land flowing with milk and honey;
23 and they went in, and took it; but
they hearkened not to thy voice, and walked not in thine ordinances; they did
none of the things which thou didst command them, and they caused all these
calamities to happen to them.
24 Behold, a multitude is come
against the city to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the
Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine: as
thou hast spoken, so has it happened.
25 And thou sayest to me, Buy thee
the field for money; and I wrote a book, and sealed
it, and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city
is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
26 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying,
27 I am the Lord, the God of all
flesh: shall anything be hidden from me!
28 Therefore thus saith the Lord God
of Israel; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king
of Babylon, and he shall take it:
29 and the Chaldeans shall come to
war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn
down the houses wherein they burnt incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and
poured drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me.
30 For the children of Israel and the
children of Juda alone did evil in my sight from their youth.
31 For this city was
obnoxious to my anger and my wrath, from the day that
they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from my presence,
32 because of all the wickedness of
the children of Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and
their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men
of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.
33 And they turned the back to me,
and not the face: whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they
hearkened no more to receive instruction.
34 And they set their pollutions in
the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.
35 And they built to Baal the altars
that are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to offer their sons and their
daughters to king Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it
into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.
36 And now thus has the Lord God of
Israel said concerning this city, of which thou sayest, It shall be delivered
into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and
banishment. 37 Behold, I
will gather them out of every land, where I have
scattered them in my anger, and my wrath, and great fury; and I will bring
them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:
38 and they shall be to me a people,
and I will be to them a God. 39 And I
will give them another way, and another heart, to fear me continually, and
that for good to them and their children after them.
40 And I will make with them an
everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will
put my fear into their heart, that they may not depart from me.
41 And I will visit
them to do them good, and I will plant them in this
land in faithfulness, and with all my heart, and with all
my soul.
42 For thus saith the Lord; As I have
brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all
the good things which I pronounced upon them.
43 And there shall yet be fields
bought in the land, of which thou sayest, It shall be destitute of man and
beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.
44 And they shall buy fields for
money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal it, and
shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and
in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn
their captivity.