Jeremiah 32:16

JEREMIAH’S PRAYER FOR FULLER REVELATION, Jeremiah 32:16-23.

16. The transaction was in itself very simple and intelligible, and the reason for it is plainly set forth. But what was predicted for the future seemed so utterly improbable that Jeremiah, for himself and for the people, makes appeal to God in a prayer which gathers up into itself the essence of Hebrew theology and history. The grand and glorious background of this prayer changeless and stainless as the very heavens themselves is God in his eternity, infinity, omnipotence, and righteousness; against which is placed his good providence over Israel, and her sin and punishment. And in view of the determination to give over the city and land to their enemies he seems to plead the difficulty of the command to buy the land.