Jeremiah Buys Land in Anathoth (32:1-44) 4973. Just Why Did I Buy This Field? (32: 16-25)
(^16) Then I prayed to Yahweh after I had given the deed of purchase to
Baruch son of Neriah:^17 Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, you, you have made the
heavens and the earth wilh your greal slre11gll1 auJ willt your out-
stretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you,^18 who shows steadfast love
to thousands but who repays the iniquity of the fathers into the lap of
their children after them, the great God, the mighty, Yahweh of hosts is
his name,^19 great in counsel and mighty in deed, so that your eyes are
open upon all the ways of humanity's children, to give to each person ac-
cording to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;^20 so that you
have shown signs and wonders, in the land of Egypt-up to this day-
and in Israel and among humankind, and you made for yourself a name,
as at this day.^21 And you brought your people Israel out from the land of
Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and with an
outstretched arm and with great terror;^22 and you gave to them this land
that you swore to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk
and honey.^23 And they came in and took possession of it, but they did not
obey your voice and in your !awe did not walk; everything that you com-
manded them to do, they did not do, so you made them meet up with all
this evil.^24 Look, the siege ramps have come to the city to take it, and the
city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting
against it, because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence; and
what you have spoken has happened. So look, you are watching!^25 Yet
you, you have said to me, 0 Lord Yahweh, 'Buy for yourself the field with
silver and call for witnesses,' but the city has been given into the hand of
the Chaldeans!
4. Yahweh's Promised Judgment (32:26-35)
a) Is Anything Too Difficult for Me? (32:26-29)
(^26) And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah: (^27) 'Look I am Yahweh, God of
all flesh. Is anything too difficult for me?'
(^28) Therefore thus said Yahweh:
Look I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he shall take it.^29 And
the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come in and set
this city on fire and burn it, including the houses on whose roofs they
burned incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods,
in order to provoke me to anger.
eReading the Q ubet6rateka ("and in your law"), which is supported by many MSS, G^1 , Aq, S,
T, and Vg; Kt is a plural, ubet6r6teka ("and in your laws"), which is read by the LXX.