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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Jeremiah 29 ISV</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="../">ISV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/jeremiah/29.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:2 Or eunuchs">a</a></span> the officials<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:2 Or princes">b</a></span> of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths left Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The letter was sent by Shaphan’s son Elasah and by Hilkiah’s son Gemariah, whom King Zedekiah of Judah sent to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in Babylon, and it said, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were taken from Jerusalem into exile to Babylon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>‘Build houses and live in them.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:5 The Heb. lacks in them">c</a></span> Plant gardens and eat their produce. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so they may have sons and daughters. Increase in numbers there, don’t decrease. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Seek the welfare of the city to which I’ve exiled you and pray to the LORD for it, for your welfare depends on its welfare.’<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:7 Lit. for in its welfare is your welfare">d</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Don’t let the prophets and diviners<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:8 Lit. your prophets and your diviners">e</a></span> who are among you deceive you, and don’t listen to them when they tell you their dreams.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:8 Lit. to your dreams that you cause to be dreamed">f</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Indeed, they’re prophesying lies to you in my name. I didn’t send them,’ declares the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“For this is what the LORD says: ‘When Babylon’s seventy years are completed, I’ll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When you call out to me and come and pray to me, I’ll hear you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I’ll be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I’ll restore your security<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:14 Or captivity">g</a></span> and gather you from all the nations and all the places to which I’ve driven you,’ declares the LORD. ‘I’ll bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Indeed, you have said, ‘The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“But this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne, and about the people who live in this city—your brothers who didn’t go with you into exile: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This is what the LORD says: ‘I’m about to send the sword, famine, and plague on them, and I’ll make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten because they’re so bad. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I’ll pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague, and I’ll make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. I’ll make them<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:18 The Heb. lacks I’ll make them">h</a></span> a curse, an object of horror, and scorn,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:18 Lit. hissing; i.e. hissing was a sign of mocking and contempt">i</a></span> and a desolation in all the nations to which I’ve driven them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because they didn’t listen to my words,’ declares the LORD. ‘When I sent my servants, the prophets, to you again and again,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:19 Lit. getting up early and sending">j</a></span> you didn’t listen,’ declares the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Now, all you exiles whom I sent from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from the LORD! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says about Kolaiah’s son Ahab and Maaseiah’s son Zedekiah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name, ‘I’m about to give them into the domination<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:21 Lit. hand">k</a></span> of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>What happens to them will be the basis for a curse<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:22 Lit. From them a curse will be taken">l</a></span> for all the Judean exiles who are in Babylon. People will say,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:22 Lit. Saying">m</a></span> “May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the LORD roasted<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:22 MT word for roasted sounds like MT word for curse">n</a></span> in the fire, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>because they did something stupid<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:23 Lit. they committed folly">o</a></span> in Israel. They committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and in my name they spoke lies that I didn’t command them. I’m the one who knows, and I’m a witness,” declares the LORD.’”</p> <p class="heading">A Rebuke to Shemaiah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“You are to say to Shemaiah of Nehelam: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>‘This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Because you sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, to Maaseiah’s son Zephaniah the priest and to all the priests— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The LORD made you a priest instead of Jehoiada the priest to serve in the LORD’s Temple as an official against every crazy prophet, and to put him in stocks and restraints. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And now, why didn’t you rebuke Jeremiah from Anathoth who prophesies to you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So he sent a message<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:28 The Heb. lacks a message">p</a></span> to us in Babylon: ‘The exile<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:28 Lit. It">q</a></span> will be long, so build houses and live in them.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:28 The Heb. lacks in them">r</a></span> Plant gardens and eat their produce.’”’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and this message from the LORD came to Jeremiah: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Send a message to all the exiles: ‘This is what the LORD says about Shemaiah from Nehelam, “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, even though I didn’t send him, and has made you trust a lie,” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>therefore, this is what the LORD says: “I’m about to judge Shemaiah from Nehelam along with his descendants. He won’t have anyone related to him<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:32 The Heb. lacks related to him">s</a></span> living among these people. Nor will he see the good that I’ll do for my people,” declares the LORD, “because he advocated rebellion against the LORD.”’”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 29:2 Or <i>eunuchs</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 29:2 Or <i>princes</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 29:5 The Heb. lacks <i>in them</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 29:7 Lit. <i>for in its welfare is your welfare</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 29:8 Lit. <i>your prophets and your diviners</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 29:8 Lit. <i>to your dreams that you cause to be dreamed</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 29:14 Or <i>captivity</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 29:18 The Heb. lacks <i>I’ll make them</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 29:18 Lit. <i>hissing</i>; i.e. hissing was a sign of mocking and contempt<br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 29:19 Lit. <i>getting up early and sending</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 29:21 Lit. <i>hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 29:22 Lit. <i>From them a curse will be taken</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 29:22 Lit. <i>Saying</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 29:22 MT word for <i>roasted</i> sounds like MT word for <i>curse</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 29:23 Lit. <i>they committed folly</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 29:28 The Heb. lacks <i>a message</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 29:28 Lit.<i> It</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 29:28 The Heb. lacks <i>in them</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 29:32 The Heb. lacks <i>related to him</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/jeremiah/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>