turned: for thou, O LORD, art my God.

When I was converted, I repented: for after that I was wrought, I smote myself on the hip.
For I am ashamed, and stand in shame: for I have suffered the scorn of my youth.

Is not Ephraim my dear son, and my trusty child? For I remember the things which I spake unto him: therefore my heart breaketh against him, that I should have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Set thee up grave-marks, set thee mourning-marks, and set thy heart upon the highway that I have trodden. Return, O virgin Israel; Return to these thy cities!

How long wilt thou go astray, thou apostate daughter? For the LORD shall create a new thing in the land: the woman shall compass the man about.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; They shall speak this word again in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I turn their captivity: The LORD bless thee, O
habitation of righteousness, O holy mountain.

And Judah and all her cities shall dwell therein, and the husbandmen, and they that go about with flocks.

For I will refresh the weary soul, and the troubled soul.

Therefore I woke up and looked up and slept so softly.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will seed the house of Israel, and the house of Judah, both man and beast.

And as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

In that day it shall no more be said, The fathers have eaten herbs, and the children’s teeth are blunted,

But every man shall die for his iniquity: and every man that eateth herbs shall have his teeth
dulled.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,

Not as the covenant which I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant they kept not, and I constrained them, saith the LORD,

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, saith the LORD; I will put my law in their hearts, and write it in their minds; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

And no man shall teach another, nor brother another, saying, Know the LORD: but they shall all know me, both small and great, saith the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sin no more.

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the moon and the stars for a light by night, according to their courses; which maketh the sea to roar with the waves thereof; O LORD of hosts is his name:

When these ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then shall the seed of Israel also cease, that they be no more a nation before me for ever.

Thus saith the LORD; If it be possible to measure the heavens above, and to search the foundations of the earth, I will also reject all the seed of Israel for all that they do, saith the LORD.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city of the LORD shall be built from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the river.

And the line shall go forth beside it unto the hill. Gareb, and turn toward Gaath.

And all the valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the field, unto the brook Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate eastward, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall never be broken up, nor cut down.
(Jeremiah)
Chapter 32
Jeremiah buys a field from Babylon as a sign of the Second Coming.

This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which is the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

Then the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem. But Jeremiah the prophet lay captive in the court of the prison of the house of the king of Judah, 3. When Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, he said, Wherefore prophesyest thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it,

And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the Chaldeans: but I will deliver him into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak unto him by word of mouth, and he shall see him with his eyes;

And he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he dwell, until I visit him, saith the LORD: for though ye fight against the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD is come unto me, saying: 7. Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thy cousin cometh unto thee, and shall say, Thou shalt buy my field at Anathoth: for thou hast the next right hand to buy it.

So Hanameel my cousin’s son came unto me, as the LORD had said, unto the court of the prison, and said unto me, Buy my field which is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin: for thou hast the right of inheritance, and thou art next unto me: buy it. Then I knew that it was the word of the LORD,

And he bought the field of Hanameel my cousin’s son in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, seven shekels and ten shekels of silver,

And he wrote a letter, and sealed it, and took witnesses thereto, and weighed the money in the balances.

And he took unto me the bill of sale sealed according to law and custom, and an open copy.

And he gave the bill of sale unto Baruch the son of Neriah the son of Mahaseiah, in the presence of Hanameel my cousin, and of the witnesses that were written in the bill of sale, and of all the Jews that dwelt in the court of the prison,

and commanded Baruch before their eyes, saying:

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these letters, the sealed bill of sale, with this open copy, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may remain long.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; They shall yet buy houses, and fields, and vineyards, in this land.

And when I had given the bill of sale unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying:

O Lord GOD, behold, thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and by thy outstretched arm; and there is no thing impossible in thy sight; 18. Thou that hast benefited many thousands, and hast recompensed the iniquity of the fathers in the bosom of their children after them, thou great and mighty God: O LORD of hosts is thy name;

Great in counsel, and mighty in deed: and thine eyes are open unto all the ways of the children of men, to give every man according to his way, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Who did signs and wonders in the land of Egypt unto this day, both to Israel and to man, and made thee a name, as it is this day,

And brought thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt by signs and wonders, by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terror.

And thou gavest them this land, which thou swarest unto their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey,

And when they came in, and had it, they hearkened not unto thy voice, neither walked they according to thy law; and all things whatsoever thou commandedst them to do, they left off: wherefore thou didst cause all these calamities to befall them:

Behold, this city is besieged, and it must be taken, and delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, from the sword, and from the famine, and from the pestilence: and as thou hast said, so it shall be, so thou shalt see;

And thou, O Lord, sayest unto me, Buy thou a field for money, and take witnesses unto it, when the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans?

And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying:

Behold, I the LORD am a God of all flesh. Should anything be impossible for me?

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take it.

And the Chaldeans that fight against this city shall come in, and set it on fire, and burn it, and the houses thereof, because they have burned incense upon the housetops unto Baal, and offered drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done evil in my sight from their youth, and the children of Israel have provoked me to anger by the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

For from the time that this city was built unto this day it hath made me angry and fierce, that I should put it out of my sight.

Because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger. They, their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, and they that dwell in Judah and Jerusalem,

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