Jeremiah 32:16-35 - Jeremiah Prays For Understanding

¹⁶ And I shall pray to Jehovah, after my giving the writing of the purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, saying, ¹⁷ Thou Lord Jehovah! behold thou madest the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine arm stretched forth; any word shall not be separated from thee. ¹⁸ Doing kindness to thousands and requiting the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them: The Great, The Strong God, Jehovah of armies his name. ¹⁹ Great of counsel, and vast of doing: for thine eyes being opened upon all the ways of the sons of men to give to each according to his ways, and to the fruit of his doings: ²⁰ Who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, and in Israel, and in man; and thou wilt make to thee a name according to this day. ²¹ And thou wilt bring forth thy people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an arm stretched forth, and with great fear: ²² And thou wilt give to them this land which thou swarest to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing milk and honey. ²³ And they will come in and possess it; and they heard not to thy voice, and they went not in thy law; all which thou didst command to them to do they did not, and thou wilt cause all this evil to befall them. ²⁴ Behold the mounds, they came to the city to take it; and the city was given into the hand of the Chaldees warring against it from the face of the sword, and the famine, and the death; and it was what thou spakest; and behold thee seeing. ²⁵ And thou saidst to me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy to thee the field for silver, and affirm witnesses; and the city was given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

²⁶ And the word of Jehovah will be to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁷ Behold, I am Jehovah, God of all flesh: is there any word separated from me? ²⁸ For this, thus said Jehovah, Behold me giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and he took it ²⁹ And the Chaldeans warring against this city came, and they burnt this city in fire, and they burnt it and the houses which they burnt incense upon their roofs to Baal, and they poured out libations to other gods to irritate me. ³⁰ For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were only doing evil in mine eyes from their youth: for the sons of Israel were only irritating me with the work of their hands, says Jehovah. ³¹ For this city was to me for mine anger and for my wrath, from the day which they built it and even to this day, to remove it from my face. ³² For all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to irritate me, they, their kings, their chiefs, their priests, and their prophets, and the man Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ³³ And they will turn to me the neck and not the face: and teaching them, and rising early and teaching, and they not hearing to receive instruction. ³⁴ And they will set their abominations in the house which my name was called upon it, to defile it ³⁵ And they will build the heights of Baal which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I commanded them not; and it came not up upon my heart to do this abomination to cause Judah to sin.