17. Ah, my Lord God! You made the heavens and the earth with your great power and your outstretched arm; nothing is too difficult for you.
18. You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; but you repay the ancestors’ guilt upon their children who follow them. Great and mighty God, whose name is Lord of hosts,
19. great in counsel, mighty in deed, whose eyes are fixed on all the ways of mortals, giving to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds:
20. you performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and to this day, in Israel and among all peoples, you have made a name for yourself as on this day.
21. You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and great terror.
22. And you gave them this land, as you had sworn to their ancestors to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
23. They went in and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice. They did not live by your law; they did not do anything you commanded them to do. Then you made all this evil fall upon them.
24. See, the siegeworks have arrived at this city to capture it; the city is handed over to the Chaldeans who are attacking it, with sword, starvation, and disease. What you threatened has happened—you can see it for yourself.
25. Yet you told me, my Lord God: Purchase the field with silver and summon witnesses, when the city has already been handed over to the Chaldeans!
26. Then this word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
27. I am the Lord, the God of all the living! Is anything too difficult for me?