Jeremiah 32:40

⁴⁰I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.f

In Jeremiah 32, the prophet is imprisoned by King Zedekiah as the Babylonian army besieges Jerusalem. In a stunning act of faith, God commands Jeremiah to buy a field from his cousin Hanamel — a field in territory already under enemy control. The purchase is a prophetic sign: though