32 This was the message that came to Yirmeyah from Yahweh in the tenth year of the reign of Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah, the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign).[ref] 2 The army of the Babylonian king had besieged Yerushalem, and the prophet Yirmeyah was imprisoned in the guards’ courtyard at the palace of Yehudah’s king. 3 Yehudah’s king Tsidkiyah had imprisoned him there after asking, “Why do you prophesy and say that Yahweh says: Listen, I’m about to hand this city over to the Babylonian king and he’ll capture it. 4 Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah definitely won’t escape from the power of the Babylonians (Heb. Chaldeans), because he’ll be handed over to the Babylonian king and they’ll speak face-to-face to each other. 5 He’ll take Tsidkiyah to Babylon where he’ll remain until I’ve dealt with him. No, you all won’t succeed in fighting against the Babylonians. That is Yahweh’s declaration.

6 Then Yirmeyah said: Yahweh gave me a message, saying: 7 Listen, your cousin Hanamel (your uncle Shallum’s son) is coming to see you and will ask you to buy his field in Anatot, because you have the right to buy it. 8 Then just as Yahweh had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the guards’ courtyard and he asked me, “Buy my field that is in Anatot in the Benyamin region, because you have the right to inherit it so the right to buy it belongs to you. Buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s message. 9 So I bought the field in Anatot from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver for him. 10 Then I wrote in a scroll and sealed it, and had witnesses witness it and the weight of the silver on the scales. 11 Next I took that sealed purchase deed with the price and conditions, as well as an unsealed copy. 12 I gave the sealed purchase document to Baruk (son of Neriyah, son of Mahseyah) in front of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who’d signed the purchase agreement, as well as all the Judeans who were sitting in the guards’ courtyard. 13 Then still in front of them, I instructed Baruk, 14 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Take these documents, both this receipt of purchase that’s sealed and the unsealed copies, and put them into a clay jar so they’ll last for a long time, 15 because Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.