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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 King James 2000</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</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 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">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jeremiah's Letter to the Captives</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the rest of the elders who 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;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">(After Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem;)</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">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,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">Thus says 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;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">Take yourself 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 you may be increased there, and not diminished.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in its peace shall you have peace.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">For thus says 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 you cause to be dreamed.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">For thus says the LORD, That after seventy years are accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">And I will be found of you, says the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD;</span> <span class="red">and I will bring you again into the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">Know that thus says the LORD of the king that sits upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwell in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">Thus says 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 bad.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">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 a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">Because they have not hearkened to my words,</span> <span class="red">says the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says the LORD.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">Hear you therefore the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Mahseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">And because of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">Because they have committed folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">Thus shall you also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Mahseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that you should be officers in the house of the LORD, over every man that is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison, and in the stocks.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">Now therefore why have you not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build yourselves houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="black">And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="black">Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because Shemaiah has prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his descendants: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; 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