Jeremiah 32:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
The date belongs to the closing years of Judah's apostasy, when the Chaldean armies came for the third and last time to besiege Jerusalem and hope fled from every heart. At that hour Jeremiah was predicting utter ruin for the city and insisting on surrender to Babylon. For that insistence those who scorned his messages had thrown him into prison and kept him under close surveillance.
Even in that confinement God did not leave the faithful remnant still in the city to hopeless despair. He gave Jeremiah fresh revelations concerning Heaven's willingness to forgive and to save. Those revelations remain an unfailing source of comfort to the church of God from that day to this.