Jeremiah 32:28

28 Therefore, here is what ADONAI says: 'I will hand this city over to the Kasdim and to N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel; and he will capture it.

Jeremiah 32:28 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:28

Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the Chaldeans
As he had foretold by the prophet, and was just now going to be fulfilled. Here the Lord repeats and confirms the first of the two things which seemed contradictory; the destruction of the city by the Chaldeans, who were now besieging it, and into whose hands it would certainly come: and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
who was now before it with his army: and he shall take it;
and become master of it: or, "I will give [it to him], that he may take it" ^F6; which he could not do, notwithstanding his powerful army, had not the Lord delivered it into his hands.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (hdklw) "ut capiat eam", Junius & Tremellius, Schmidt.

Jeremiah 32:28 In-Context

26 Then this word of ADONAI came to Yirmeyahu:

27 "Look, I am ADONAI, the God of every living creature; is there anything too hard for me?

28 Therefore, here is what ADONAI says: 'I will hand this city over to the Kasdim and to N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel; and he will capture it.

29 The Kasdim who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire; they will burn it down, including its houses, on whose roofs they offered to Ba'al and poured out drink offerings to other gods, in order to make me angry.

30 For from their youth, the people of Isra'el and the people of Y'hudah have done only what is evil from my perspective; the people of Isra'el have done nothing but provoke me with what their hands make,' says ADONAI.