Jeremiah 32:29-44 ▼

29 And the Chaldeans fighting against this city will come in, and they will set this city on fire and will burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs they offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods so as to provoke Me to anger.

30 For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil from their youth in My eyes; for the sons of Israel surely have provoked Me to anger by the work of their hands! A declaration of YHWH.

31 For upon My anger and My fury this city has been unto Me from the day that they built it even to this day, and I will turn it aside from before My face,

32 because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and those dwelling in Jerusalem.

33 And they have turned to Me the neck and not the face, though I taught them, rising up early and teaching, and they have not listened to receive instruction.

34 And they set their abominations in the house upon which My name is called, to defile it.

35 And they built the high places of Baal, that are in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, to make their daughters and their sons pass through unto Molech—which I did not command them, and it did not come upon My heart that they should do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.

36 And now, therefore, thus says YHWH, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you? are saying, ‘It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:’

37 Behold, I am going to gather them from all the lands to which I have driven them there in My anger and in My fury and in great wrath, and I will return them to this place, and I will cause them to dwell in safety.

38 And they will be unto Me for a people, and I will be unto them God.

39 And I will give to them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me all the days, for the good of them and of their sons after them.

40 And I will make with them a covenant forever, that I will not turn away from them My doing good, and My fear I will put in their hearts, and that they will not turn aside from Me.

41 And I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in truth, with all My heart and with all My soul.

42 For thus says YHWH: As I have brought to this people all this great evil, so I am bringing in upon them all the good that I am speaking over them.

43 And it will be bought—the field in this land of which you? say, ‘It is desolate with no man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’

44 They will buy fields for money and sign accounts and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around 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 turn back their captivity, a declaration of YHWH.”