In Jeremiah 32:26–44, the Lord responds to Jeremiah’s prayer in Jeremiah 32:16–25. The response has two main sections. In Jeremiah 32:26–35 the Lord once again describes the judgment that is coming to Judah and in Jeremiah 32:36–44 he speaks of the restoration that he will bring to the land and its exiled people. These are the two realities that Jeremiah has been struggling to reconcile in his own prayer.
Jeremiah said in his prayer that nothing is too hard for the Lord because he made the heavens and the earth (Jeremiah 32:17). The Lord affirms that he is God of all flesh,
but now he turns that statement back to Jeremiah in the form of a question, Is anything too hard for me?
The Lord is challenging Jeremiah’s faith in the truths that Jeremiah has expressed in his own prayer1. The Lord is showing Jeremiah that he already knows the answer to his confusion. That which seems impossible to him, the restoration of the people after the judgment that is coming, is not impossible for the Lord. The question is, does Jeremiah believe what he knows to be true?
27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?