Psalm 146 & Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 | Westminster Talking the Text for Sunday, September 28, 2025

Westminster Talking the Text for Sunday, September 28, 2025 | Psalm 146 & Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 | with with Donovan Drake, Stephanie Boaz, and Ashley Higgins

Psalm 146

Help and hope come from God 

146:1Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!

146:2I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.

146:3Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

146:4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

146:5Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God,

146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;

146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

146:8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

146:9The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

146:10The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD!

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15

Jeremiah buys a field 

32:1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

32:2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was confined in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah,

32:3awhere King Zedekiah of Judah had confined him.

32:6Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me:

32:7Hanamel son of your uncle Shallum is going to come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'"

32:8Then my cousin Hanamel came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, "Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself." Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

32:9And I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out the silver to him, seventeen shekels of silver.

32:10I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the silver on scales.

32:11Then I took the sealed deed of purchase containing the terms and conditions and the open copy,

32:12and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard.

32:13In their presence I charged Baruch, saying,

32:14"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, in order that they may last for a long time.

32:15For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land."

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