Jeremiah Chapter 29

• Jeremiah 29:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 29:2
  Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests,...
• Jeremiah 29:3
  (after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem...
• Jeremiah 29:4
  by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babyl...
• Jeremiah 29:5
  The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
• Jeremiah 29:6
  “Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.
• Jeremiah 29:7
  Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multip...
• Jeremiah 29:8
  Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”
• Jeremiah 29:9
  For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams ...
• Jeremiah 29:10
  For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 29:11
  For the LORD says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return t...
• Jeremiah 29:12
  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
• Jeremiah 29:13
  You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Jeremiah 29:14
  You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
• Jeremiah 29:15
  I will be found by you,” says the LORD, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whe...
• Jeremiah 29:16
  Because you have said, “The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”
• Jeremiah 29:17
  the LORD says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone wit...
• Jeremiah 29:18
  the LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eat...
• Jeremiah 29:19
  I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kin...
• Jeremiah 29:20
  because they have not listened to my words,” says the LORD, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but...
• Jeremiah 29:21
  Hear therefore the LORD’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
• Jeremiah 29:22
  The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you...
• Jeremiah 29:23
  A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the ...
• Jeremiah 29:24
  because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, wh...
• Jeremiah 29:25
  Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
• Jeremiah 29:26
  “The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah...
• Jeremiah 29:27
  “The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the LORD’s house, for every man who is crazy and make...
• Jeremiah 29:28
  Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
• Jeremiah 29:29
  because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”
• Jeremiah 29:30
  Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
• Jeremiah 29:31
  Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
• Jeremiah 29:32
  “Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘The LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send hi...
• Jeremiah 29:33
  therefore the LORD says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t...