Jeremías 32:43

43 Se comprarán campos en esta tierra, de la cual ustedes dicen: “Es una tierra desolada, sin gente ni animales, porque fue entregada en manos de los babilonios”.

Jeremías 32:43 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:43

And fields shall be bought in this land
After the return from the Babylonish captivity, which this respects; and of which the prophet's purchasing a field of his uncle's son was a pledge and token; in doing which, as a right thing, he is confirmed; as well as the cavils and objections of the Jews removed, who thought the destruction of the city, and such a practice, irreconcilable; and, moreover, this is mentioned as a pledge, earnest, and confirmation of the fulfilment of the above spiritual promises in Gospel times; for the people being returned at the end of the seventy years' captivity, and purchasing fields and vineyards, as was predicted, it might be strongly concluded, that since those temporal blessings promised were made good, spiritual ones would certainly be fulfilled; though some understand these words, in a spiritual sense, of the field of the church; for it is in the singular number, "a field shall be bought" ^F15; yea, "that field", emphatically, which was bought by the blood of Christ, and first planted in the land of Judea, as in ( Jeremiah 32:41 ) ; whereof ye say, [it is] desolate without man or beast;
so wasted and destroyed by the enemy, that neither man nor beast are left, but both carried off by him; and therefore no hope of what is above promised: it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans;
they are become the possessors of it, and therefore it is all over with us as to buying and possessing fields and vineyards; but notwithstanding this diffidence and despair in the present view of things, it follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (hdvh hnqnw) "et [vel] tum emetur ager", Cocceius, Schmidt; "tum comparabitur ager", Junius & Tremellius.

Jeremías 32:43 In-Context

41 Me regocijaré en favorecerlos, y con todo mi corazón y con toda mi alma los plantaré firmemente en esta tierra.

42 »Así dice el SEÑOR: Tal como traje esta gran calamidad sobre este pueblo, yo mismo voy a traer sobre ellos todo el bien que les he prometido.

43 Se comprarán campos en esta tierra, de la cual ustedes dicen: “Es una tierra desolada, sin gente ni animales, porque fue entregada en manos de los babilonios”.

44 En la tierra de Benjamín y en los alrededores de Jerusalén, en las ciudades de Judá, de la región montañosa, de la llanura, y del Néguev, se comprarán campos por dinero, se firmarán escrituras, y se sellarán ante testigos —afirma el SEÑOR—, porque yo cambiaré su suerte».