32:1 猶大王西底家第十年，就是尼布甲尼撒十八年，耶和華的話臨到耶利米。
32:2 那時巴比倫王的軍隊圍困耶路撒冷，先知耶利米囚在護衛兵的院內，在猶大王的宮中；
32:3 因為猶大王西底家已將他囚禁，說：「你為甚麼預言說，耶和華如此說：『我必將這城交在巴比倫王的手中，他必攻取這城。
32:4 猶大王西底家必不能逃脫迦勒底人的手，定要交在巴比倫王的手中，要口對口彼此說話，眼對眼彼此相看。
32:5 巴比倫王必將西底家帶到巴比倫；西底家必住在那裡，直到我眷顧他的時候。你們雖與迦勒底人爭戰，卻不順利。這是耶和華說的。』」
32:6 耶利米說：「耶和華的話臨到我說：
32:7 『你叔叔沙龍的兒子哈拿篾必來見你，說：我在亞拿突的那塊地，求你買來；因你買這地是合乎贖回之理。』」
32:8 我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾果然照耶和華的話來到護衛兵的院內，對我說：「我在便雅憫境內、亞拿突的那塊地，求你買來；因你買來是合乎承受之理，是你當贖的。你為自己買來吧！」我─耶利米就知道這是耶和華的話。
32:9 我便向我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾買了亞拿突的那塊地，平了十七舍客勒銀子給他。
32:10 我在契上畫押，將契封緘，又請見證人來，並用天平將銀子平給他。
32:11 我便將照例按規所立的買契，就是封緘的那一張和敞著的那一張，
32:12 當著我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾和畫押作見證的人，並坐在護衛兵院內的一切猶大人眼前，交給瑪西雅的孫子尼利亞的兒子巴錄。
32:13 當著他們眾人眼前，我囑咐巴錄說：
32:14 「萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：要將這封緘的和敞著的兩張契放在瓦器裡，可以存留多日。
32:15 因為萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：將來在這地必有人再買房屋、田地，和葡萄園。」
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from
the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth
year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging
Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard
in the royal palace of Judah.
3 Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned
him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the
Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon,
and he will capture it. 4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the
Babylonians[a] but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of
Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes. 5
He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him,
declares the Lord. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not
succeed.’”
6 Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came
to me: 7 Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say,
‘Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and
duty to buy it.’
8 “Then, just as the Lord had said, my
cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field
at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it
and possess it, buy it for yourself.’
“I knew that this was the word of the
Lord; 9 so I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed
out for him seventeen shekels[b] of silver. 10 I signed and sealed the deed, had
it witnessed, and weighed out the silver on the scales. 11 I took the deed of
purchase—the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, as well as the
unsealed copy— 12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of
Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and of the witnesses who had
signed the deed and of all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
13 “In their presence I gave Baruch these
instructions: 14 ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Take
these documents, both the sealed and unsealed copies of the deed of purchase,
and put them in a clay jar so they will last a long time. 15 For this is what
the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will
again be bought in this land.’
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這是一件很奇怪的土地買賣，既然國家已經非常危急了，買賣土地有什麼意義呢？尤其是上帝讓耶利米成為買方，這是不是一件很好笑的事呢？買了沒多久以後，就要被敵人侵占，自己又會被擄，生死未卜，這真是吃大虧的事啊！
但是，先知知道這又是上帝要藉由他發信息，才叫他遇見這不尋常的事情。這是先知生命中必然發生的事情，正如基督徒的生命中，也是發生許多人認為開玩笑的事情，卻偏偏發生在基督徒身上！
然而上帝讓這是發生，是要預言猶大的百姓被擄之後，必要歸回故土，所訂的任何契約，在將來還是有效的，並且子孫對這樣的契約還是要算數的，不可以反悔或更改的，上帝仍然在眷顧！
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