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Jeremiah 32:16

in Jeremiah 32

After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

KJV

Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the Lord, saying,

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This verse in Jeremiah 32

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Jeremiah, not comprehending how God's threat of destroying Judah could be reconciled with God's commanding him to purchase land in it as if in a free country, has recourse to his grand remedy against perplexities, prayer.

This site's exposition

I prayed unto the Lord, saying

on Jeremiah 32:16-25

Jeremiah's prayer opens with the largest possible confession, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, before narrowing to the history he knows firsthand, the exodus, the land given by oath, and the disobedience that followed it into the very siege now closing around him. The prayer does not hide its own confusion; verse 25 sets God's fresh command to buy the field beside the plain fact that the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, the prophet naming the tension rather than resolving it himself. Calvin reads the prayer as honest wrestling rather than performed confidence, a man obeying a sign he does not yet fully understand.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 16) And I prayed to the Lord after I had delivered the book of possession to Baruch the son of Neriah, saying: After the celebration of the lawful purchase of the field, and after the sentence of the Lord, in which he promised houses, fields, and vineyards to be possessed henceforth, the Prophet prays to the Lord and expresses the anguish of his heart with groans, saying:

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, Prayer is a salve for every sore. Whatever is a burden to us, we may by prayer cast it upon the Lord and then be easy. In this prayer, or meditation, I.
Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We have a message which God thereupon entrusted him to deliver to the people. He must foretel the utter destruction of Judah and Jerusalem for their sins,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

I prayed unto the Lord - And what a prayer! What weight of matter, sublimity of expression, profound veneration, just conception, Divine unction, powerful pleading, and strength of faith! Historical, without flatness; condensed, without obscurity; confessing the greatest of crimes against the most righteous of Beings, without despairing of his mercy, or presuming on his goodness: a confession that, in fact, acknowledges that God’s justice should smite and destroy, had not his infinite goodness said, I will pardon and spare.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וָאֶתְפַּלֵּ֖לand I prayed

    vaetpalelH6419 →84 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֤יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • תִתִּי֙gave I

    titiH5414 →2011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • סֵ֣פֶר[the] document of

    seferH5612 →186 times

  • הַמִּקְנָ֔הthe purchase

    hamiknahH4736 →15 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בָּר֥וּךְBaruch

    barukhH1263 →26 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • נֵרִיָּ֖הNeriah

    neriyahH5374 →10 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Jeremiah 32:12and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.4 worksPhilippians 4:6–7Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.3 worksJeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?3 worksGenesis 32:9–12Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’3 worksEzekiel 36:35–37Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’2 works2 Samuel 7:18–25Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 45:1This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 12:1

    Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live…

    it leads to

    • Malachi 3:15

      So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

    • Psalms 92:7

      that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

    • Psalms 37:1

      Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

    • Psalms 73:3–28

      For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    • Psalms 37:35

      I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 32 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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