New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 29:1-19

1Now these are the words of the 1letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2(This was after King 2Jeconiah and the 3queen mother, the high officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalworkers had departed from Jerusalem.) 3The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of 4Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying, 4“This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles whom I have 5sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5‘6Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their 7produce. 6Take 8wives and father sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may give birth to sons and daughters; and grow in numbers there and do not decrease. 7 9Seek the 10prosperity of the city where I have sent you into exile, and 11pray to the Lord in its behalf; for 12in its 13prosperity will be your 14prosperity.’ 8For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Do not let your 15prophets who are in your midst or your diviners 16deceive you, and do not listen to their interpretations of 17your dreams which you dream. 9For they 18prophesy falsely to you in My name; 19I have not sent them,’ declares the Lord.

10“For this is what the Lord says: ‘When 20seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My 21good word to you, to bring you back to this place. 11For I know the 22plans that I 23have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for 24 25prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a 26hope. 12Then you will 27call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will 28listen to you. 13And you will 29seek Me and find Me when you 30search for Me with all your heart. 14I will let Myself be 31found by you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will 32restore your fortunes and 33gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will 34bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’

15“Because you have said, ‘The Lord has raised up 35prophets for us in Babylon’-- 16for this is what the Lord says concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who live in this city, your brothers who did 36not go with you into exile-- 17this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the 37sword, famine, and plague; and I will make them like 38rotten figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness. 18I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague; and I will 39make them an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a 40curse and an object of horror and 41 42hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations where I have driven them, 19because they have 43not listened to My words,’ declares the Lord, ‘which I sent to them again and again by 44My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,’ declares the Lord.

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 29:1 2 Chr 30:1, 6; Esth 9:20; Jer 29:25, 29 ↩
2. Jeremiah 29:2 2 Kin 24:12-16; 2 Chr 36:9, 10; Jer 22:24-28; 24:1; 27:20 ↩
3. Jeremiah 29:2 2 Kin 24:12, 15; Jer 13:18; 22:26 ↩
4. Jeremiah 29:3 1 Chr 6:13 ↩
5. Jeremiah 29:4 Jer 24:5 ↩
6. Jeremiah 29:5 Jer 29:28 ↩
7. Jeremiah 29:5 Lit fruit ↩
8. Jeremiah 29:6 Jer 16:2-4 ↩
9. Jeremiah 29:7 Dan 4:27; 6:4, 5 ↩
10. Jeremiah 29:7 Or peace ↩
11. Jeremiah 29:7 Ezra 6:10; 7:23; Dan 4:19; 1 Tim 2:1, 2 ↩
12. Jeremiah 29:7 Or your prosperity will depend on its ↩
13. Jeremiah 29:7 Or peace ↩
14. Jeremiah 29:7 Or peace ↩
15. Jeremiah 29:8 Jer 27:9; 29:1 ↩
16. Jeremiah 29:8 Jer 14:14; 23:21; 27:14, 15; 28:15; Eph 5:6 ↩
17. Jeremiah 29:8 Jer 23:25, 27 ↩
18. Jeremiah 29:9 Jer 27:15; 29:21 ↩
19. Jeremiah 29:9 Jer 29:31 ↩
20. Jeremiah 29:10 2 Chr 36:21-23; Jer 25:12; 27:22; Dan 9:2; Zech 7:5 ↩
21. Jeremiah 29:10 Jer 24:6, 7; Zeph 2:7 ↩
22. Jeremiah 29:11 Ps 40:5; Jer 23:5, 6; 30:9, 10 ↩
23. Jeremiah 29:11 Lit am planning ↩
24. Jeremiah 29:11 Or salvation ↩
25. Jeremiah 29:11 Is 40:9-11; Jer 30:18-22 ↩
26. Jeremiah 29:11 Jer 31:17; Hos 2:15 ↩
27. Jeremiah 29:12 Ps 50:15; Jer 33:3; Dan 9:3 ↩
28. Jeremiah 29:12 Ps 145:19 ↩
29. Jeremiah 29:13 Deut 4:29; Ps 32:6; Matt 7:7 ↩
30. Jeremiah 29:13 1 Chr 22:19; 2 Chr 22:9; Jer 24:7 ↩
31. Jeremiah 29:14 Deut 30:1-10; Ps 32:6; Is 55:6 ↩
32. Jeremiah 29:14 Jer 30:3; 32:37-41 ↩
33. Jeremiah 29:14 Is 43:5, 6; Jer 23:8; 32:37 ↩
34. Jeremiah 29:14 Jer 3:14; 12:15; 16:15 ↩
35. Jeremiah 29:15 Jer 29:21, 24 ↩
36. Jeremiah 29:16 Jer 38:2, 3, 17-23 ↩
37. Jeremiah 29:17 Jer 27:8; 29:18; 32:24 ↩
38. Jeremiah 29:17 Jer 24:3, 8-10 ↩
39. Jeremiah 29:18 Deut 28:25; 2 Chr 29:8; Jer 15:4; 24:9; 34:17; Ezek 12:15 ↩
40. Jeremiah 29:18 Is 65:15; Jer 42:18 ↩
41. Jeremiah 29:18 Or whistling ↩
42. Jeremiah 29:18 Jer 25:9; Lam 2:15, 16 ↩
43. Jeremiah 29:19 Jer 6:19 ↩
44. Jeremiah 29:19 Jer 25:4; 26:5; 35:15 ↩

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