English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 39, verse 1 in Lxxen Version

Jeremiah 39 : 1 (LXXEN)

The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias in the tenth year of king Sedekias, this is the eighteenth year of king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 39 : 2 (LXXEN)

and the host of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremias was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king’s house;

Jeremiah 39 : 3 (LXXEN)

in which king Sedekias had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

Jeremiah 39 : 4 (LXXEN)

and Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;

Jeremiah 39 : 5 (LXXEN)

and Sedekias shall go into Babylon, and *Complut. kayieitai, adopted here dwell there?

Jeremiah 39 : 6 (LXXEN)

AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS, SAYING,

Jeremiah 39 : 7 (LXXEN)

Behold, Anameel the son of Salom thy father’s brother is coming to thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for thou hast the right to take it as a purchase.

Jeremiah 39 : 8 (LXXEN)

So Anameel the son of Salom my father’s brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy thee my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for thou hast a right to buy it, and thou art the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.

Jeremiah 39 : 9 (LXXEN)

And I bought the field of Anameel the son of my father’s brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.

Jeremiah 39 : 10 (LXXEN)

And I wrote it in a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.

Jeremiah 39 : 11 (LXXEN)

And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;

Jeremiah 39 : 12 (LXXEN)

and I gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, in the sight of Anameel my father’s brother’s son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 39 : 13 (LXXEN)

And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty;

Jeremiah 39 : 14 (LXXEN)

Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and thou shalt put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.

Jeremiah 39 : 15 (LXXEN)

For thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be *The Alex. reading kthyhsontai, has been substituted here bought fields and houses and vineyards in this land.

Jeremiah 39 : 16 (LXXEN)

And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Nerias, saying,

Jeremiah 39 : 17 (LXXEN)

O ever living Lord! thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, and with thy high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden from thee.

Jeremiah 39 : 18 (LXXEN)

*Gr. doing Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the great, the strong God;

Jeremiah 39 : 19 (LXXEN)

the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the great Almighty God, and Lord of great name: thine eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to every one according to his way:

Jeremiah 39 : 20 (LXXEN)

who hast wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and thou didst make for thyself a name, as at this day;

Jeremiah 39 : 21 (LXXEN)

and thou didst bring out thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great *Or, visions sights;

Jeremiah 39 : 22 (LXXEN)

and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Jeremiah 39 : 23 (LXXEN)

and they went in, and took it; but they hearkened not to thy voice, and walked not in thine ordinances; they did none of the things which thou didst command them, and they caused all these calamities to happen to them.

Jeremiah 39 : 24 (LXXEN)

Behold, a multitude is come against the city to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine: as thou hast spoken, so has it happened.

Jeremiah 39 : 25 (LXXEN)

And thou sayest to me, Buy thee the field for *Lit. silver money; and I wrote a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 39 : 26 (LXXEN)

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 39 : 27 (LXXEN)

I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: shall anything be hidden from me!

Jeremiah 39 : 28 (LXXEN)

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

Jeremiah 39 : 29 (LXXEN)

and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses wherein they burnt incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and poured drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me.

Jeremiah 39 : 30 (LXXEN)

For the children of Israel and the children of Juda alone did evil in my sight from their youth.

Jeremiah 39 : 31 (LXXEN)

For this city was obnoxious to my anger and my wrath, from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from my presence,

Jeremiah 39 : 32 (LXXEN)

because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 39 : 33 (LXXEN)

And they turned the back to me, and not the face: whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they hearkened no more to receive instructions.

Jeremiah 39 : 34 (LXXEN)

And they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.

Jeremiah 39 : 35 (LXXEN)

And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to offer their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; which things I commanded them *Or, not to do not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.

Jeremiah 39 : 36 (LXXEN)

And now thus has the Lord God of Israel said concerning this city, of which thou sayest, it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and banishment.

Jeremiah 39 : 37 (LXXEN)

Behold, I will gather them out of every land, where I have scattered them in my anger, and my wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:

Jeremiah 39 : 38 (LXXEN)

and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a god.

Jeremiah 39 : 39 (LXXEN)

And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them.

Jeremiah 39 : 40 (LXXEN)

And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put my fear into their heart, that they may not depart from me.

Jeremiah 39 : 41 (LXXEN)

And I will visit them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all my heart, and with all my soul.

Jeremiah 39 : 42 (LXXEN)

For thus saith the Lord; As I have brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced upon them.

Jeremiah 39 : 43 (LXXEN)

And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which thou sayest, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 39 : 44 (LXXEN)

And they shall buy fields for *Gr. silver money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal it, and shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.