Fields shall be bought may require restructuring as an active expression: “in this land people shall again buy fields” (Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch).

You is plural, as in verse 36. Refer to the comments there.

Desolation: See 4.27.

For man or beast, see 7.20.

Chaldeans: See 21.4.

The Good News Translation restructuring is a useful model. Another possible way to render the verse is:

• Even though you say this land is like a desert where neither people nor animals live, and that I am going to give it over to the Babylonians, yet once again people will be buying fields here.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .