Verse 6
Jeremiah 32:6
New Living Translation
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At that time the LORD sent me a message. He said,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ הָיָ֥ה דְּבַר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥/י לֵ/אמֹֽר
English Translation
And Jeremiah said, "The word of the Lord came to me, saying..."
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 32 Context
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The following message came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of the reign of Zedekiah, kin...
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Jerusalem was then under siege from the Babylonian army, and Jeremiah was imprisoned in the courtyar...
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King Zedekiah had put him there, asking why he kept giving this prophecy: “This is what the LORD say...
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King Zedekiah will be captured by the Babylonians and taken to meet the king of Babylon face to face...
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He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and I will deal with him there,’ says the LORD. ‘If you fight agai...
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At that time the LORD sent me a message. He said,
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“Your cousin Hanamel son of Shallum will come and say to you, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth. By law you...
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Then, just as the LORD had said he would, my cousin Hanamel came and visited me in the prison. He sa...
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So I bought the field at Anathoth, paying Hanamel seventeen pieces of silver for it.
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I signed and sealed the deed of purchase before witnesses, weighed out the silver, and paid him.
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Then I took the sealed deed and an unsealed copy of the deed, which contained the terms and conditio...
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and I handed them to Baruch son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I did all this in the presence o...
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Then I said to Baruch as they all listened,
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“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says: ‘Take both this sealed...
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For this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says: ‘Someday people will...
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Then after I had given the papers to Baruch, I prayed to the LORD:
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“O Sovereign LORD! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is t...
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You show unfailing love to thousands, but you also bring the consequences of one generation’s sin up...
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You have all wisdom and do great and mighty miracles. You see the conduct of all people, and you giv...
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You performed miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt — things still remembered to this da...
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“You brought Israel out of Egypt with mighty signs and wonders, with a strong hand and powerful arm,...
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You gave the people of Israel this land that you had promised their ancestors long before — a land f...
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Our ancestors came and conquered it and lived in it, but they refused to obey you or follow your wor...
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“See how the siege ramps have been built against the city walls! Through war, famine, and disease, t...
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And yet, O Sovereign LORD, you have told me to buy the field — paying good money for it before these...
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Then this message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
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“I am the LORD, the God (Elohim) of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?
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Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I will hand this city over to the Babylonians and to Nebuchad...
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The Babylonians outside the walls will come in and set fire to the city. They will burn down all the...
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Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong since their earliest days. They have infuriated me with...
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“From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined t...
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32
“The sins of Israel and Judah — the sins of the people of Jerusalem, the kings, the officials, the p...
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33
My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to return. Even though I diligently taught...
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34
They have set up their abominable idols right in my own Temple, defiling it.
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They have built pagan shrines to Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and there they sacrifice their so...
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“Now I want to say something more about this city. You have been saying, ‘It will fall to the king o...
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I will certainly bring my people back again from all the countries where I will scatter them in my f...
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They will be my people, and I will be their God (Elohim).
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And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for th...
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And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put...
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I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land...
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“This is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all these calamities on them, so I will do all t...
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43
Fields will again be bought and sold in this land about which you now say, ‘It has been ravaged by t...
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Yes, fields will once again be bought and sold — deeds signed and sealed and witnessed — in the land...
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