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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle"s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:

And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle"s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

So Hanameel mine uncle"s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

For then the king of Babylon"s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah"s house.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.