¶The .xxxii. Chapter.
1 Ieremie is cast into pryson, because he prophecied that the citie shoulde be taken of the kyng of Babylon. 7 By the fielde that Ieremie bought at the commaundement of the Lorde, is signified that the people should come agayne to their owne possession. 38 The people of God are his seruauntes, and he is their Lorde. 40 To feare God, is Gods gyft, to the entent that sinnes may be eschewed.
[unspec A] 1 THese wordes spake the Lorde vnto Ieremie in the tenth yere of Ze∣dekias king of Iuda, whiche was the eygh∣teenth yere of Nabu∣chodonozor,
2 What tyme as the kyng of Babylons hoast layde siege vnto Hierusalem: but Ieremie the prophete lay bounde in the court of the pryson, whiche was in the kyng of Iudaes house,
3 Where Zedekias the kyng of Iuda caused hym to be layde, because he had prophecied on this maner: Thus saith the Lorde, * 1.1 Beholde, I wyll deliuer this citie into the handes of the kyng of Babylon, whiche shall take it.
4 As for Zedekias the kyng of Iuda, he shall not be able to escape the Chal∣dees: but surely he shall come into the handes of the king of Babylon, whiche shall speake with him mouth to mouth, and one of them shall looke another in the face.
5 And Zedekias shalbe caryed vnto Babylon, and there shall he be vntyll the tyme that I visite hym saith the Lorde: but if thou takest in hande to fight against the Chaldees, thou shalt not prosper.
6 And Ieremie saide, Thus hath the Lorde spoken vnto me:
7 Beholde, Hananeel the sonne of Sel∣lum [unspec B] thine vncles sonne, shall come vnto thee, and require thee to redeeme the lande that lyeth in Anathoth vnto thy selfe: * 1.2 for by reason of kinred it is thy right to redeeme it and bye it out.
8 And Hananeel myne vncles sonne came to me in the court of the pryson, according to the word of the Lord, and sayde vnto me: Bye my lande I pray thee, that lieth in Anathoth in the coun∣trey of Beniamin, for by heritage thou hast right to loose it out for thy selfe, therfore redeeme it. Then I percea∣ued that this was the cōmaundement the Lorde:
9 And so I bought the lande from Ha∣naeel of Anathoth myne vncles sonne, and wayed hym there the money, euen seuen sicles, and ten syluer pence:
10 And I writ it in a booke, and sealed it, and toke witnesses, and wayed hym there the money vpon the waightes.
11 So I toke the euidence with the co∣pie, when it was orderly sealed, and read it ouer:
12 And I gaue the euidence to Baruch the sonne of Neriah, the sonne of Maa∣siah, in the sight of Hananeel my cosin, and in the presence of the witnesses that be named in the euidence, and before all