13. Then I said to Baruch as they all listened,
14. “This is what the lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Take both this sealed deed and the unsealed copy, and put them into a pottery jar to preserve them for a long time.’
15. For this is what the lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Someday people will again own property here in this land and will buy and sell houses and vineyards and fields.’”
16. Then after I had given the papers to Baruch, I prayed to the lord:
17. “O Sovereign lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!