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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 29 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Jeremiah 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/28.htm" title="Jeremiah 28">◄</a> Jeremiah 29 <a href="../jeremiah/30.htm" title="Jeremiah 30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/29-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remnant of [the] elderly of the expulsion, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people—whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>after the going forth of Jeconiah the king, and the mistress, and the officers, heads of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsman, and the smith, from Jerusalem— <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>by the hand of Eleasah son of Shaphan, and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, to all the expulsion that I removed from Jerusalem to Babylon: <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Build houses and abide; and plant gardens and eat their fruit; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and you are not few; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and seek the peace of the city to where I have removed you, and pray to YHWH for it, for in its peace you have peace. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Do not let your prophets who [are] in your midst, and your diviners, lift you up, nor listen to their dreams, that you are causing [them] to dream; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for they are prophesying with falsehood to you in My Name; I have not sent them, a declaration of YHWH.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For thus said YHWH: Surely at the fullness of Babylon—seventy years—I inspect you, and have established My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking toward you—a declaration of YHWH; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give posterity and hope to you. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed to Me, and I have listened to you, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and you have sought Me, and have found, for you seek Me with all your heart; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and I have been found by you—a declaration of YHWH; and I have turned back [to] your captivity, and have gathered you out of all the nations, and out of all the places to where I have driven you—a declaration of YHWH—and I have brought you back to the place from where I removed you.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Because you have said, YHWH has raised up prophets to us in Babylon, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>surely thus said YHWH concerning the king who is sitting on the throne of David, and concerning all the people that are dwelling in this city, your brothers who did not go forth with you in the expulsion— <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>thus said YHWH of Hosts: Behold, I am sending the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, and I have given them up as figs that [are] vile, that are not eaten because of badness. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations to where I have driven them, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because that they have not listened to My words—a declaration of YHWH—that I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and you did not listen—a declaration of YHWH. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And you, hear a word of YHWH, all you of the captivity that I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon—<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying falsehood to you in My Name: Behold, I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he has struck them before your eyes, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and because of them a reviling has been taken by all the expulsion of Judah that [are] in Babylon, saying, YHWH sets you as Zedekiah, and as Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>because that they have done folly in Israel, and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and falsely speak a word in My Name that I have not commanded them, and I [am] He who knows and a witness—a declaration of YHWH.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And you speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, saying, Because that you have sent letters in your name to all the people who [are] in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying, <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>YHWH has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of YHWH over every man [who] is mad and making himself a prophet, and you have put him in the stocks and in the pillory. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And now, why have you not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is making himself a prophet to you? <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Because that he has sent to us [in] Babylon, saying, It [is] long, build houses and abide; and plant gardens and eat their fruit.”<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Zephaniah the priest reads this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah, saying, <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Send to all the expulsion, saying, Thus said YHWH concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I have not sent him, and he causes you to trust on falsehood, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>therefore, thus said YHWH: Behold, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he has none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor does he look on the good that I am doing to My people,” a declaration of YHWH, “for he has spoken apostasy against YHWH.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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