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Jeremiah 29

Jeremiah writes to the exiles in Babylon: build houses, plant gardens, raise families and seek the peace of the city where you live. The exile will last seventy years, but God knows the plans he has for them, plans for peace and a future, and they will find him when they seek him wholeheartedly.

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Key verses

  • Verse 7Seek the good of the city where you live, even in exile.
  • Verse 11God's plans for his people are for peace and a future.
  • Verse 13Whoever seeks God wholeheartedly will find him.

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;SelectedJeremiah 29:1Ask

(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)SelectedJeremiah 29:2Ask

By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,SelectedJeremiah 29:3Ask

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;SelectedJeremiah 29:4Ask

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;SelectedJeremiah 29:5Ask

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.SelectedJeremiah 29:6Ask

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.SelectedJeremiah 29:7Ask

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.SelectedJeremiah 29:8Ask

For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 29:9Ask

For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.SelectedJeremiah 29:10Ask

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.SelectedJeremiah 29:11Ask

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.SelectedJeremiah 29:12Ask

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.SelectedJeremiah 29:13Ask

And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.SelectedJeremiah 29:14Ask

Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;SelectedJeremiah 29:15Ask

Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;SelectedJeremiah 29:16Ask

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.SelectedJeremiah 29:17Ask

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:SelectedJeremiah 29:18Ask

Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 29:19Ask

Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:SelectedJeremiah 29:20Ask

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;SelectedJeremiah 29:21Ask

And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;SelectedJeremiah 29:22Ask

Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 29:23Ask

Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,SelectedJeremiah 29:24Ask

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,SelectedJeremiah 29:25Ask

The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.SelectedJeremiah 29:26Ask

Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?SelectedJeremiah 29:27Ask

For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.SelectedJeremiah 29:28Ask

And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.SelectedJeremiah 29:29Ask

Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,SelectedJeremiah 29:30Ask

Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:SelectedJeremiah 29:31Ask

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 29:32Ask

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