A reading from the book of Jeremiah.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah King of Judah,

which was the 18th year of Nebuchadnezzar.

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem,

and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the

palace of the King of Judah. For Zedekiah King of Judah had imprisoned him, saying,

Why do you prophesy and say, thus says the Lord, behold, I am giving this city into the hand of

the King of Babylon, and he shall capture it.

Zedekiah, King of Judah, shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans,

but shall surely be given into the hand of the King of Babylon,

and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.

And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the Lord,

though you fight against the Chaldeans you shall not succeed.

Jeremiah said,

The word of the Lord came to me,

Behold, Hadamel the son of Shalom, your uncle, will come to you and say,

By my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.

Then, Hanamel, my cousin, came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me,

By my field that is at Anathothoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession

and redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

And I bought the field at Anathothoth from Hannamel, my cousin, and weighed out the money to him

17 shekels of silver.

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