포위된 가운데 땅을 사다: 고난 중의 위로의 말씀

유다 왕 시드기야의 제십 년, 곧 느부갑레살의 제십팔 년에 여호와께로부터 말씀이 예레미야에게 임하였으니, 이때 바벨론 왕의 군사가 예루살렘을 에워싸고 있었고 선지자 예레미야는 유다 왕의 궁전에 딸린 감옥 뜰에 갇혀 있었더라. 유다 왕 시드기야가 그를 가두며 이르기를 "네가 어찌하여 예언하느냐 '여호와께서 이같이 말씀하시기를 내가 이 성을 바벨론 왕의 손에 넘기리니 그가 취하리라, 유다 왕 시드기야는 갈대아인의 손에서 벗어나지 못하고 반드시 바벨론 왕의 손에 넘겨지리니 그가 직접 만나서 눈으로 볼 것이며, 시드기야는 바벨론으로 끌려가 거기 머물러 있다가 내가 그를 돌볼 때까지 이리라 여호와의 말이니라. 너희가 갈대아인과 싸워도 이기지 못하리라' 하느냐" 하였더라. 예레미야가 말하되 여호와의 말씀이 내게 임하여 이르시되 "네 숙부 살룸의 아들 하나멜이 네게 와서 말하리니 '아나돗의 내 밭을 사라. 네가 가장 가까운 친족이니 그 땅을 무르팡이로 살 권리가 네게 있느니라' 하리라" 하시더니. 여호와께서 말씀하신 대로 내 사촌 하나멜이 감옥 뜰로 내게 와서 이르되 "베냐민 땅 아나돗에 있는 내 밭을 사라. 무르팡이로 살 권리가 네게 있고 네가 가장 가까운 친족이니 너는 그것을 사라" 하기에 여호와의 말씀이 참됨을 내가 알았더라. 이에 내가 내 사촌 하나멜에게서 아나돗의 밭을 사서 은 일곱 십 세겔을 저울에 달아 그에게 주고, 매매 증서를 써서 봉인하고 증인을 세운 후 은을 저울에 달고, 매매 증서 곧 봉인한 계약서와 규례와 법대로 말미암아 열지 않은 것을 취하여, 친척 하나멜과 증서에 기록된 증인들 앞에서, 그리고 감옥 뜰에 앉아 있는 유다 사람들 앞에서 그 증서를 므낫세야의 아들 네리야의 아들 바룩에게 넘겨주며, 그들 앞에서 내가 바룩에게 명하여 이르기를 "만군의 여호와 이스라엘의 하나님께서 이같이 말씀하시되 너는 이 증서 곧 봉인한 매매 증서와 열지 않은 증서를 가져다 질그릇 그릇에 넣어 오래 보존되게 하라. 만군의 여호와 이스라엘의 하나님께서 이같이 말씀하시되 이 땅에서 다시 집들이며 밭들이며 포도원들이 매매될 것이라 하셨느니라" 하였더라. 내가 증서를 므낫세야의 아들 네리야의 아들 바룩에게 넘긴 후에 여호와께 기도하여 이르되 "아, 주 여호와여, 주께서 큰 능력과 펴신 팔로 천지를 지으셨사오니 주에게는 능히 못하시는 일이 없으시니이다. 주께서 은혜를 천 대에 베푸시며 아비들의 죄를 그들의 후손에게 갚으시나이다. 이름이 만군의 여호와이신 크고 능력하신 하나님, 뜻이 크고 능력이 혁혁하시며, 사람의 모든 행위를 살피사 각 사람의 행위와 행실의 열매를 따라 보응하시는 이시여, 주께서 애굽 땅에서 징조와 기사를 베푸사 오늘까지 이스라엘과 사람들 중에 이름을 얻으셨고, 주께서 징조와 기사와 강한 손과 펴신 팔과 큰 두려움으로 애굽 땅에서 주의 백성 이스라엘을 인도하여 내셨고, 주께서 그들의 조상에게 주겠다고 맹세하신 땅 곧 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 땅을 그들에게 주셨으므로 그들이 들어 차지하였거늘, 그들이 주를 듣지 아니하며 주의 법을 행하지 아니하고 주께서 행하라 명하신 일은 조금도 행하지 아니하였으므로 이 모든 재앙을 그들에게 내리셨나이다. 이 성을 쳐서 취하려고 쌓은 사다리가 보이오니 이는 칼과 기근과 전염병으로 인하여 갈대아인의 손에 넘겨지게 되었음이라 주께서 말씀하신 대로 이루었고 보옵나이다. 그러나 주 나의 주 여호와께서 내게 이르시기를 '네가 돈으로 밭을 사서 증인을 세울지어다' 하시더니, 이 성이 갈대아인의 손에 넘겨지게 되었거든 어떻게 하리이까?" 하였더니. 여호와의 말씀이 예레미야에게 임하여 이르시되 보라 나는 여호와 곧 만물의 하나님이니 내게 능히 못하시는 일이 있겠느냐? 나 여호와가 이같이 말하노라 보라 내가 이 성을 갈대아인의 손과 바벨론 왕 느부갑레살의 손에 넘기리니 그가 취하리라. 이 성을 쳐온 갈대아인들이 와서 이 성에 불을 놓아 사르리니, 이는 그가 이스라엘과 유다의 백성이 자기들의 일로 나를 격노하게 한지 오래라, 이스라엘 백성이 어렸을 때부터 나를 격노하게 하였음이라 여호와의 말이니라. 이 성은 세워진 날부터 오늘까지 나의 노와 분을 격동하였으니, 이는 이스라엘과 유다의 모든 악을 인하여 내가 내 목전에서 그것을 제거코자 함이니, 곧 그들의 왕들과 지도자들과 제사장들과 선지자들과 유다의 시민들과 예루살렘 거민들이 이같이 나를 격노케 하였음이라. 그들이 내게 등을 향하고 얼굴을 향치 아니하였으며 내가 그들을 부지런히 가르쳤으나 듣지 아니하며 권면을 받지 아니하고, 그들이 내 이름으로 일컫는 집에 그들의 가증한 물건을 두어 그 집을 더럽혔고, 또 힌놈의 아들 골짜기에 바알의 산당을 건축하여 자기들의 아들과 딸들을 몰렉에게 불태워 드렸으며 — 내가 명한 적도 없고 내 마음에 떠오른 적도 없는 가증한 일로 유다를 범죄케 하여 — {"task":"translate_text","source_language":"English","target_language":"Korean","text":"in fire to Molech—which I never commanded, nor did it ever enter My mind that they should do this abomination, so as to bring guilt on Judah. Therefore, the days are coming—declares GOD—when this place shall no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but “the Valley of Slaughter.” And on that day I will make void the plans of the king of Judah, which he has made to escape from this city. And I will make him fall by the sword before their enemies and before those who seek his life; and his corpse shall be cast out, and I will give his body to be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. And I will make all the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem give up their wickedness, to return to this city and fight against it and capture it and burn it down. And I will make this city a desolation and an object of horror; all who pass by it shall be appalled at its every plague. I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat one another’s flesh—because of the severity of the siege and the distress to which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them. “And I will requite them for all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken Me, and have sacrificed to other gods and worshipped the works of their hands. And I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all its stores, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them off to Babylon. And you, Pashhur, and all the members of your household and all your fellowmen, shall go into exile from Jerusalem, to Babylon; and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried—you, and all your friends to whom you prophesied falsely. You have denied GOD!” And you, Pashhur, shall go into exile—you, and all the members of your household, and all your fellowmen—and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried—you, and all your friends to whom you prophesied falsely. You have denied GOD!” The word that came to Jeremiah from GOD: “Thus said GOD, who made the earth by His might, established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding spread out the skies. When He makes His voice rumble, the heavens are in turmoil, and He makes storm clouds rise from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth wind from His treasuries. Every man is proved stupid, without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol, for the molten images are a deceitful thing—there is no breath in them! They are a delusion, a mockery; in their hour of punishment they shall perish. Not like these is the portion of Jacob: He is the maker of all, and Israel is His very own tribe; GOD of Hosts is His name. Gather your stuff from the land, O dwellers in besieged Jerusalem! And you shall be ashamed and humiliated for all your wickedness. And you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall reach as far as Babylon, and there you shall be rescued; there GOD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. And I will make this city a desolation and an object of horror; all who pass by it shall be appalled at its every plague. And all the nations shall say: ‘Why has GOD dealt thus with this great city? What prompted the great anger of GOD?’ And they shall answer: ‘Because they forsook the covenant of GOD their God, and worshipped other gods and served them.’ For the gods of the peoples of the earth are not gods at all, but the work of human hands, wood and stone. But the GOD of Israel is the living God, the everlasting King; at His wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot bear His indignation. Thus you shall say to them: The gods that did not make heaven and earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens. He is the one who made the earth by His might, established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding spread out the skies. When He makes His voice rumble, the heavens are in turmoil, and storm clouds rise from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth wind from His treasuries. Every man is proved stupid, without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol. But the GOD of Israel is the living God, the everlasting King; at His wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot bear His indignation. Not like these is the portion of Jacob: He is the maker of all, and Israel is His very own tribe; GOD of Hosts is His name. Gather your stuff from the land, O dwellers in besieged Jerusalem! And you shall be ashamed and humiliated for all your wickedness. And you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall reach as far as Babylon, and there you shall be rescued; there GOD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. And I will make this city a desolation and an object of horror; all who pass by it shall be appalled at its every plague. Gather up your bundle from the ground, O dweller in the besieged city! I am GOD, and there is no other. I have sworn by Myself; righteousness has gone out from My mouth, a word that shall not be revoked: Every knee shall bow to Me, every tongue shall swear. “Assuredly, all of you shall say, ‘Only in GOD shall I find victory and strength.’ All who challenged Him shall come to shame; GOD will speedily act against them. But all Israel shall be vindicated through GOD and triumph in GOD; they shall be ashamed and humiliated, all the contemners of GOD. And the LORD will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel. And you, Pashhur, and all the members of your household and all your fellowmen, shall go into exile from Jerusalem, to Babylon; and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried—you, and all your friends to whom you prophesied falsely. You have denied GOD!” The word that came to Jeremiah from GOD: “Thus said GOD, who made the earth by His might, established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding spread out the skies. When He makes His voice rumble, the heavens are in turmoil, and He makes storm clouds rise from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth wind from His treasuries. Every man is proved stupid, without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol, for the molten images are a deceitful thing—there is no breath in them! They are a delusion, a mockery; in their hour of punishment they shall perish. Not like these is the portion of Jacob: He is the maker of all, and Israel is His very own tribe; GOD of Hosts is His name. Gather your stuff from the land, O dwellers in besieged Jerusalem! And you shall be ashamed and humiliated for all your wickedness. And you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall reach as far as Babylon, and there you shall be rescued; there GOD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. And I will make this city a desolation and an object of horror; all who pass by it shall be appalled at its every plague. Gather up your bundle from the ground, O dweller in the besieged city! I am GOD, and there is no other. I have sworn by Myself; righteousness has gone out from My mouth, a word that shall not be revoked: Every knee shall bow to Me, every tongue shall swear. “Assuredly, all of you shall say, ‘Only in GOD shall I find victory and strength.’ All who challenged Him shall come to shame; GOD will speedily act against them. But all Israel shall be vindicated through GOD and triumph in GOD; they shall be ashamed and humiliated, all the contemners of GOD. And the LORD will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel. And the word that came to Jeremiah from GOD, saying: “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, saying: Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book. For behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah, says the LORD. And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.” Now these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah. “For thus says the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see, if a male has ever given birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from your neck, and will burst your bonds; foreigners shall no more make him serve as a slave. But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. Therefore do not fear, O My servant Jacob, says the LORD; nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and have rest and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in justice, and will not let you go altogether unpunished.” For thus says the LORD: “I will assuredly make you free, O Zion, for the good; I will assuredly make you free from the hand of those who hate you. And I will break the arm of the wicked, and I will break the bow of the oppressor. I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit; I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be rooted out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God. Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say: He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock. For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of the LORD—their grain, their new wine, their oil, and the young of the flock and the herd. Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all. “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning to joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow. I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.” Thus says the LORD: “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.” Thus says the LORD: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope in your future, says the LORD, that your children shall come back to their own border. “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; restore me, and I will return, for You are the LORD my God. Surely, after my returning, I will repent; and after I am made to know myself, I will beat my breast. I am ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bear the reproach of my youth.’ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD. ‘Set up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these your cities. How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth—a woman shall encompass a man.’ Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: ‘The LORD bless you, O home of righteousness, mountain of holiness!’ And in it shall be inhabited the cities of Judah, and the shepherds with their flocks dwelling therein. For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” Upon this I awoke, and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me. “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. And it shall be, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD. In those days they shall say no more: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But every one shall die for his own sin; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD’; for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar; the LORD of Hosts is His name: “If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.” Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD. “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. The measuring line shall again go out over the hill of Gareb, and shall bend toward Goah. And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever.” The word that came to Jeremiah from GOD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It was from the house of the LORD. And GOD said to me: “I have a judgment to render against this city, because all its people are like these stumbling blocks, which cause the downfall of the people of My flock, and they have not heeded My voice, and they have not walked in My ways, and they have not obeyed My law, and they have not followed My statutes. Therefore, thus says GOD against the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, says GOD. I will bring back My people from the land of their captivity, and they shall build up the cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit; I will plant them in their own land, and they shall not again be plucked up from their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God. Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say: He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock. For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of the LORD—their grain, their new wine, their oil, and the young of the flock and the herd. Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all. “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning to joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow. I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.” Thus says the LORD: “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.” Thus says the LORD: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope in your future, says the LORD, that your children shall come back to their own border. “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; restore me, and I will return, for You are the LORD my God. Surely, after my returning, I will repent; and after I am made to know myself, I will beat my breast. I am ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bear the reproach of my youth.’ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD. ‘Set up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these your cities. How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth—a woman shall encompass a man.’ Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: ‘The LORD bless you, O home of righteousness, mountain of holiness!’ And in it shall be inhabited the cities of Judah, and the shepherds with their flocks dwelling therein. For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” Upon this I awoke, and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me. “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. And it shall be, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD. In those days they shall say no more: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But every one shall die for his own sin; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD’; for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar; the LORD of Hosts is His name: “If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.” Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD. “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. The measuring line shall again go out over the hill of Gareb, and shall bend toward Goah. And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever.” The word that came to Jeremiah from GOD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It was from the house of the LORD. And GOD said to me: “I have a judgment to render against this city, because all its people are like these stumbling blocks, which cause the downfall of the people of My flock, and they have not heeded My voice, and they have not walked in My ways, and they have not obeyed My law, and they have not followed My statutes. Therefore, thus says GOD against the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, says GOD. I will bring back My people from the land of their captivity, and they shall build up the cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit; I will plant them in their own land, and they shall not again be plucked up from their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God. Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say: He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock. For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of the LORD—their grain, their new wine, their oil, and the young of the flock and the herd. Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all. “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning to joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow. I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.” Thus says the LORD: “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.” Thus says the LORD: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope in your future, says the LORD, that your children shall come back to their own border. “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; restore me, and I will return, for You are the LORD my God. Surely, after my returning, I will repent; and after I am made to know myself, I will beat my breast. I am ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bear the reproach of my youth.’ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD. ‘Set up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these your cities. How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth—a woman shall encompass a man.’ Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: ‘The LORD bless you, O home of righteousness, mountain of holiness!’ And in it shall be inhabited the cities of Judah, and the shepherds with their flocks dwelling therein. For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” Upon this I awoke, and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me. “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. And it shall be, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD. In those days they shall say no more: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But every one shall die for his own sin; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD’; for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar; the LORD of Hosts is His name: “If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.” Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD. “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. The measuring line shall again go out over the hill of Gareb, and shall bend toward Goah. And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever.”

예레미야 32장 1-20절은 예루살렘이 포위 공격을 당하고 예레미야가 갇혀 있는 바로 그 순간에 토지를 사라는 하나님의 말씀이 내려오는 불가능한 순간을 전합니다. 민족적 붕괴와 부동산 거래가 나란히 놓이는 이 대조는 하나님께서 그의 백성을 위한 위로를 그려 내리시는 캔버스가 됩니다.