Verse 25
Yet the Lord had commanded Jeremiah to buy the field in Anathoth-even though the Chaldeans were ready to take Jerusalem!
Though Jeremiah did not ask for an explanation of the Lord’s directions to him, that is the point of his prayer. He wanted an explanation for this unusual command. Did he have second thoughts after purchasing the property, did his faith waver, or was his prayer an expression of his faith?
"It is a fine example of the way to pray in a desperate situation: concentrating first on the creative power (17) and perfect fidelity and justice (18-19) of God; remembering next his great redemptive acts (20-23a; to which the Christian can now add the greatest of them all)-and then with this background, laying before God the guilt of the past (23b), the hard facts of the present (24) and the riddle of the future (25)." [Note: Kidner, p. 113.]
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