Ezekiel 5

Ezekiel 5:1

Jeremiah Buys a Field

Jeremiah, recognizing the word of the LORD through his cousin’s visit and offer, buys the field (Jeremiah 32:9). He pays the outweighed price for it. Although Jeremiah is a prisoner, he apparently does have some freedom of action. The amount is not high. That will have to do with the situation at the time.

The transaction is recorded in a deed of purchase that Jeremiah signs (Jeremiah 32:10). He then seals the deed and has witnesses confirm that he has paid the correct amount. The deed consists of two deeds: a sealed deed and an open deed (Jeremiah 32:11). The sealed deed provides security; the open deed can be seen by anyone to prove that the deal was done entirely as agreed.

The sealing is regulated by law. Jeremiah gives both deeds to Baruch. Everything happens with the greatest openness (Jeremiah 32:12). Everything is transparent and observable by all. There is no suspicion that anything is happening with hidden intentions. At the same time, it is also a testimony of faith. Jeremiah buys a piece of land also as proof of his trust in the LORD that He will give restoration.

When Jeremiah hands the deeds to Baruch, he adds a command (Jeremiah 32:13). Baruch is to put the sealed deed and the unsealed deed in an earthenware jar (Jeremiah 32:14). Jeremiah gives him this instruction in the Name of “the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel”. The power of God and that He is the God of His people are for faith the guarantee of His promises (cf. Jeremiah 27:4). They are to be put into an earthenware jar, in order that both deeds may be kept for a long time and that they may be legible after that long time. When they are brought out after a long time, it will be seen that the deed left open and the sealed deed have the same content. The purchase will still be in full force.

That they will be brought out is certain. For the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says that a time will come when houses and fields and vineyards will be bought again in this land (Jeremiah 32:15). Jeremiah’s purchase is a purchase in faith. He is doing in faith what will soon be possible for the whole land.

What happens to Jeremiah is a picture of what happens to Christ. Christ has not only been in prison, but has purchased the field, the world, with His blood (Revelation 5:1-13). We see Him breaking the seals of ownership of the world because He is the rightful Owner (Revelation 6:1-17). Then He comes to claim His inheritance and all believers may be present at that moment (Revelation 19:11-21).

Ezekiel 5:2

Jeremiah Buys a Field

Jeremiah, recognizing the word of the LORD through his cousin’s visit and offer, buys the field (Jeremiah 32:9). He pays the outweighed price for it. Although Jeremiah is a prisoner, he apparently does have some freedom of action. The amount is not high. That will have to do with the situation at the time.

The transaction is recorded in a deed of purchase that Jeremiah signs (Jeremiah 32:10). He then seals the deed and has witnesses confirm that he has paid the correct amount. The deed consists of two deeds: a sealed deed and an open deed (Jeremiah 32:11). The sealed deed provides security; the open deed can be seen by anyone to prove that the deal was done entirely as agreed.

The sealing is regulated by law. Jeremiah gives both deeds to Baruch. Everything happens with the greatest openness (Jeremiah 32:12). Everything is transparent and observable by all. There is no suspicion that anything is happening with hidden intentions. At the same time, it is also a testimony of faith. Jeremiah buys a piece of land also as proof of his trust in the LORD that He will give restoration.

When Jeremiah hands the deeds to Baruch, he adds a command (Jeremiah 32:13). Baruch is to put the sealed deed and the unsealed deed in an earthenware jar (Jeremiah 32:14). Jeremiah gives him this instruction in the Name of “the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel”. The power of God and that He is the God of His people are for faith the guarantee of His promises (cf. Jeremiah 27:4). They are to be put into an earthenware jar, in order that both deeds may be kept for a long time and that they may be legible after that long time. When they are brought out after a long time, it will be seen that the deed left open and the sealed deed have the same content. The purchase will still be in full force.

That they will be brought out is certain. For the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says that a time will come when houses and fields and vineyards will be bought again in this land (Jeremiah 32:15). Jeremiah’s purchase is a purchase in faith. He is doing in faith what will soon be possible for the whole land.

What happens to Jeremiah is a picture of what happens to Christ. Christ has not only been in prison, but has purchased the field, the world, with His blood (Revelation 5:1-13). We see Him breaking the seals of ownership of the world because He is the rightful Owner (Revelation 6:1-17). Then He comes to claim His inheritance and all believers may be present at that moment (Revelation 19:11-21).

Ezekiel 5:3

Jeremiah Buys a Field

Jeremiah, recognizing the word of the LORD through his cousin’s visit and offer, buys the field (Jeremiah 32:9). He pays the outweighed price for it. Although Jeremiah is a prisoner, he apparently does have some freedom of action. The amount is not high. That will have to do with the situation at the time.

The transaction is recorded in a deed of purchase that Jeremiah signs (Jeremiah 32:10). He then seals the deed and has witnesses confirm that he has paid the correct amount. The deed consists of two deeds: a sealed deed and an open deed (Jeremiah 32:11). The sealed deed provides security; the open deed can be seen by anyone to prove that the deal was done entirely as agreed.

The sealing is regulated by law. Jeremiah gives both deeds to Baruch. Everything happens with the greatest openness (Jeremiah 32:12). Everything is transparent and observable by all. There is no suspicion that anything is happening with hidden intentions. At the same time, it is also a testimony of faith. Jeremiah buys a piece of land also as proof of his trust in the LORD that He will give restoration.

When Jeremiah hands the deeds to Baruch, he adds a command (Jeremiah 32:13). Baruch is to put the sealed deed and the unsealed deed in an earthenware jar (Jeremiah 32:14). Jeremiah gives him this instruction in the Name of “the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel”. The power of God and that He is the God of His people are for faith the guarantee of His promises (cf. Jeremiah 27:4). They are to be put into an earthenware jar, in order that both deeds may be kept for a long time and that they may be legible after that long time. When they are brought out after a long time, it will be seen that the deed left open and the sealed deed have the same content. The purchase will still be in full force.

That they will be brought out is certain. For the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says that a time will come when houses and fields and vineyards will be bought again in this land (Jeremiah 32:15). Jeremiah’s purchase is a purchase in faith. He is doing in faith what will soon be possible for the whole land.

What happens to Jeremiah is a picture of what happens to Christ. Christ has not only been in prison, but has purchased the field, the world, with His blood (Revelation 5:1-13). We see Him breaking the seals of ownership of the world because He is the rightful Owner (Revelation 6:1-17). Then He comes to claim His inheritance and all believers may be present at that moment (Revelation 19:11-21).

Ezekiel 5:4

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:5

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:6

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:7

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:8

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:9

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:10

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:11

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:12

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:13

Jeremiah’s Doubts and Prayer

When the purchase is done, Jeremiah is overcome by despair and prays to the LORD (Jeremiah 32:16). He does not report his doubts to people, but does the only right thing. He turns to the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, which is the sovereign Ruler (Adonai) and the God of the covenant with His people (Yahweh) (Jeremiah 32:17). He remembers Who the LORD is. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which He made by His great power and His outstretched arm. For that great, all-powerful Creator, nothing is too difficult. That Creator proves Himself both in lovingkindness and in repayment of the iniquity to men (Jeremiah 32:18). Also in these acts He proves to be the “great and mighty God”.

This God is “great in counsel and mighty in deed”, precisely in His ways with men to thereby give to each what is due him as a result of his actions (Jeremiah 32:19). He is not an unmoved spectator of all that men do. Often we think so, but that is because of our limited view. That He is concerned with what happens on earth and especially with His own, He has shown in the signs and wonders He performed in Egypt, at the deliverance of His people from it (Jeremiah 32:20). He has also shown it in Israel and to all people on earth, as it was visible at that time.

With His people He has gone a special way. He has always proven Himself to His people as the God Who has been working for them since He led them out of the land of Egypt (Jeremiah 32:21). He has brought them into the land which He swore to their fathers to give them, the good land flowing with milk and honey (Jeremiah 32:22). Briefly Jeremiah summarizes: “They came in and took possession of it” (Jeremiah 32:23). Immediately he adds how they behaved in it. They have not done what the LORD has said and therefore He has made all this calamity they are now experiencing to come upon them (Nehemiah 9:22-35).

Jeremiah, with the exclamation “behold, the siege ramps “ directs the LORD’s attention to the current situation (Jeremiah 32:24). At the same time, he justifies the LORD. What He has said that should happen is happening. After all, the LORD sees it Himself.

Then comes his desperate question that always plays in the background of everything he has said before about the LORD and His people. How is it possible, when the situation is so hopeless because of the people’s unfaithfulness, that he had to buy a certain field with witnesses to it (Jeremiah 32:25)? Surely the LORD does see that this purchase seems to be of no use because the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans, doesn’t He?

Ezekiel 5:14

The Answer of the LORD

Then comes the LORD’s answer to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 32:26). It is an answer in which we must learn to rest. He is “the LORD, the God of all flesh” (Jeremiah 32:27), that is, not only of His people Israel, but of all mortal and limited people. He is far above them. All His purposes He will carry out, no matter how the situation in which His people, then or now, find themselves, may seem to belittle it. To Him nothing is too difficult, a word the LORD also said to Abraham a thousand years earlier in connection with the birth of a son, while he and Sarah were at that time humanly too old to have children (Genesis 18:14).

The city will be taken by the Babylonians (Jeremiah 32:28). That is the current situation. The LORD is doing this on the basis of His Word, because His people have been unfaithful to Him. The enemies will ruin the city (Jeremiah 32:29). They will burn the city and also the houses, because many houses have become idolatrous altars, where people offer sacrifices to Baal and other gods. Consequently, the LORD has become angry toward the city.

Their behavior has not suddenly changed. They have done what is evil in His sight from their youth, from their earliest days as a nation (Jeremiah 32:30). There has hardly been a time when the city has responded to His purpose (Jeremiah 32:31). It is remarkable how long the LORD has endured the city. But the time of forbearance has an end. He must now remove the city from before His face. The attitude of the entire population of the city is the cause of it (Jeremiah 32:32).

The LORD taught them about His will every time, early and late, all day long, but they turned their back and not their faces to Him (Jeremiah 32:33). We too can experience this ingratitude from those to whom we have done good and for whom we have sought good.

Instead of repenting, they have taken their wickedness to the extreme by setting up abominable idols in His house (Jeremiah 32:34). By doing so they have defiled the house of His Name. Even outside of it, the abominations are endless (Jeremiah 32:35). They sacrifice their children to Molech, the god of the Ammonites. God did not command this, it is nowhere in the law, not even a thought of it entered His heart. Such disgusting acts are entirely strange to Him and He does not encourage people to do them (James 1:13). Idolatry in any form and sins in any expression do not come from Him. He is not the Author of sin.

Ezekiel 5:15

The Answer of the LORD

Then comes the LORD’s answer to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 32:26). It is an answer in which we must learn to rest. He is “the LORD, the God of all flesh” (Jeremiah 32:27), that is, not only of His people Israel, but of all mortal and limited people. He is far above them. All His purposes He will carry out, no matter how the situation in which His people, then or now, find themselves, may seem to belittle it. To Him nothing is too difficult, a word the LORD also said to Abraham a thousand years earlier in connection with the birth of a son, while he and Sarah were at that time humanly too old to have children (Genesis 18:14).

The city will be taken by the Babylonians (Jeremiah 32:28). That is the current situation. The LORD is doing this on the basis of His Word, because His people have been unfaithful to Him. The enemies will ruin the city (Jeremiah 32:29). They will burn the city and also the houses, because many houses have become idolatrous altars, where people offer sacrifices to Baal and other gods. Consequently, the LORD has become angry toward the city.

Their behavior has not suddenly changed. They have done what is evil in His sight from their youth, from their earliest days as a nation (Jeremiah 32:30). There has hardly been a time when the city has responded to His purpose (Jeremiah 32:31). It is remarkable how long the LORD has endured the city. But the time of forbearance has an end. He must now remove the city from before His face. The attitude of the entire population of the city is the cause of it (Jeremiah 32:32).

The LORD taught them about His will every time, early and late, all day long, but they turned their back and not their faces to Him (Jeremiah 32:33). We too can experience this ingratitude from those to whom we have done good and for whom we have sought good.

Instead of repenting, they have taken their wickedness to the extreme by setting up abominable idols in His house (Jeremiah 32:34). By doing so they have defiled the house of His Name. Even outside of it, the abominations are endless (Jeremiah 32:35). They sacrifice their children to Molech, the god of the Ammonites. God did not command this, it is nowhere in the law, not even a thought of it entered His heart. Such disgusting acts are entirely strange to Him and He does not encourage people to do them (James 1:13). Idolatry in any form and sins in any expression do not come from Him. He is not the Author of sin.

Ezekiel 5:16

The Answer of the LORD

Then comes the LORD’s answer to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 32:26). It is an answer in which we must learn to rest. He is “the LORD, the God of all flesh” (Jeremiah 32:27), that is, not only of His people Israel, but of all mortal and limited people. He is far above them. All His purposes He will carry out, no matter how the situation in which His people, then or now, find themselves, may seem to belittle it. To Him nothing is too difficult, a word the LORD also said to Abraham a thousand years earlier in connection with the birth of a son, while he and Sarah were at that time humanly too old to have children (Genesis 18:14).

The city will be taken by the Babylonians (Jeremiah 32:28). That is the current situation. The LORD is doing this on the basis of His Word, because His people have been unfaithful to Him. The enemies will ruin the city (Jeremiah 32:29). They will burn the city and also the houses, because many houses have become idolatrous altars, where people offer sacrifices to Baal and other gods. Consequently, the LORD has become angry toward the city.

Their behavior has not suddenly changed. They have done what is evil in His sight from their youth, from their earliest days as a nation (Jeremiah 32:30). There has hardly been a time when the city has responded to His purpose (Jeremiah 32:31). It is remarkable how long the LORD has endured the city. But the time of forbearance has an end. He must now remove the city from before His face. The attitude of the entire population of the city is the cause of it (Jeremiah 32:32).

The LORD taught them about His will every time, early and late, all day long, but they turned their back and not their faces to Him (Jeremiah 32:33). We too can experience this ingratitude from those to whom we have done good and for whom we have sought good.

Instead of repenting, they have taken their wickedness to the extreme by setting up abominable idols in His house (Jeremiah 32:34). By doing so they have defiled the house of His Name. Even outside of it, the abominations are endless (Jeremiah 32:35). They sacrifice their children to Molech, the god of the Ammonites. God did not command this, it is nowhere in the law, not even a thought of it entered His heart. Such disgusting acts are entirely strange to Him and He does not encourage people to do them (James 1:13). Idolatry in any form and sins in any expression do not come from Him. He is not the Author of sin.

Ezekiel 5:17

The Answer of the LORD

Then comes the LORD’s answer to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 32:26). It is an answer in which we must learn to rest. He is “the LORD, the God of all flesh” (Jeremiah 32:27), that is, not only of His people Israel, but of all mortal and limited people. He is far above them. All His purposes He will carry out, no matter how the situation in which His people, then or now, find themselves, may seem to belittle it. To Him nothing is too difficult, a word the LORD also said to Abraham a thousand years earlier in connection with the birth of a son, while he and Sarah were at that time humanly too old to have children (Genesis 18:14).

The city will be taken by the Babylonians (Jeremiah 32:28). That is the current situation. The LORD is doing this on the basis of His Word, because His people have been unfaithful to Him. The enemies will ruin the city (Jeremiah 32:29). They will burn the city and also the houses, because many houses have become idolatrous altars, where people offer sacrifices to Baal and other gods. Consequently, the LORD has become angry toward the city.

Their behavior has not suddenly changed. They have done what is evil in His sight from their youth, from their earliest days as a nation (Jeremiah 32:30). There has hardly been a time when the city has responded to His purpose (Jeremiah 32:31). It is remarkable how long the LORD has endured the city. But the time of forbearance has an end. He must now remove the city from before His face. The attitude of the entire population of the city is the cause of it (Jeremiah 32:32).

The LORD taught them about His will every time, early and late, all day long, but they turned their back and not their faces to Him (Jeremiah 32:33). We too can experience this ingratitude from those to whom we have done good and for whom we have sought good.

Instead of repenting, they have taken their wickedness to the extreme by setting up abominable idols in His house (Jeremiah 32:34). By doing so they have defiled the house of His Name. Even outside of it, the abominations are endless (Jeremiah 32:35). They sacrifice their children to Molech, the god of the Ammonites. God did not command this, it is nowhere in the law, not even a thought of it entered His heart. Such disgusting acts are entirely strange to Him and He does not encourage people to do them (James 1:13). Idolatry in any form and sins in any expression do not come from Him. He is not the Author of sin.