Jeremiah 32:28

28 Therefore, the LORD proclaims: I'm handing this city over to the Babylonians and King Nebuchadnezzar, who 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 the LORD's word came to Jeremiah:

27 I am the LORD, the God of all living things! Is anything too hard for me?

28 Therefore, the LORD proclaims: I'm handing this city over to the Babylonians and King Nebuchadnezzar, who will capture it.

29 They will enter the city, set it on fire, and burn it down—including the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings to other gods, which made me especially angry.

30 The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes since their youth; the people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but anger me by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.