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Tanach: Jeremiah (Yermiyah): Jeremiah (Yermiyah) Chapter 32

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This is the biblical text of Jeremiah 32, presented in both Hebrew script and romanized transliteration, belonging to the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible. The chapter recounts the prophet Jeremiah purchasing a field from his cousin Hanameel in Anathoth during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem — a deliberate symbolic act performed while Jeremiah himself is imprisoned by King Zedekiah for prophesying the city's fall. The central tension is that Jeremiah buys land and preserves the deed carefully in a clay jar even as the city is visibly collapsing around him, a sign-act meant to embody God's promise that normal life — buying houses, fields, and vineyards — will one day resume in the land. The chapter then pivots to a long divine speech acknowledging Israel's persistent disobedience (including child sacrifice in the Valley of Hinnom) as the cause of the impending catastrophe, but closing with an unconditional promise of restoration: God will gather the exiles, give them a single heart and path, and make an everlasting covenant with them. The passage is distinctive for its paradoxical logic — investing in the future precisely at the moment of apparent total loss — and for embedding a legal land transaction with full documentary detail inside a prophetic theological framework.

Tanach: Jeremiah (Yermiyah): Jeremiah (Yermiyah) Chapter 32

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