V.3 Poor Jeremiah was so hated for telling the people what the Lord had told him, that they put him in prison. But it is good to notice, that he keeps on as if nothing had happened. Why? Because he believed God. See what the Apostle Paul calls himself in Ephesians 4:1. So was Jeremiah! Happy to be one! But notice verse 4.
V.6-12 He is told to buy a piece of land.
V.14-15 The deeds of the property were to be preserved for the future. Later they would find that all this had been prophesied!
V.17 Let’s never forget this verse — and the question in verse 27.
The rest of the chapter shows us that (1) God had given Israel the promised land, (2) They disobeyed God, (3) They were punished for doing this, (4) Yet God, because of Christ’s death for their sins, will bring them back and Christ shall be King over them in prosperity, power and happiness.