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and plant gardens, and eat their fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and do not be diminished. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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 shall have peace.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Do not let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them,' says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"For thus says the LORD, 'After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For I know the plans that I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans for your welfare, and not for calamity, to give you hope and a future. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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 where I have driven you,' says the LORD; 'and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>"Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon'; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>thus says the LORD of hosts; 'Look, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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 kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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 you would not hear,' says the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>'Hear therefore the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahiab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: 'Look, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahiab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire"; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness,' says the LORD."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>"Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>'Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, "Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>'The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "The captivity is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit?"'"'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>"Send to all them of the captivity, saying, 'Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>therefore," thus says the LORD, "Look, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his offspring; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says the LORD, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD."'"<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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