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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 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there and do not decrease [in number]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Seek peace <i>and</i> well-being for the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its peace (well-being) you will have peace.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your [false] prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you; pay no attention <i>and</i> attach no significance to the dreams which they dream <i>or</i> to yours, <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“For thus says the LORD, ‘When seventy years [of exile] have been completed for Babylon, I will visit (inspect) you and keep My good promise to you, to bring you back to this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For I know the plans <i>and</i> thoughts that I have for you,’ says the LORD, ‘plans for peace <i>and</i> well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] <i>and</i> I will listen to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then [with a deep longing] you will seek Me <i>and</i> require Me [as a vital necessity] and [you will] find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will be found by you,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and I will [free you and] gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’ <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Because you [who have remained in Jerusalem] have said, ‘The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 live in this city, your brothers (fellow people of Judah) who did not go with you into captivity-- <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Behold (listen very carefully), I am sending the sword, famine, and virulent disease (pestilence) on them, and I will make them like rotten figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with virulent disease; and I will make them a terror (warning) to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a horror, a hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations to which I have driven them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because they have not listened to <i>and</i> honored My words,’ says the LORD, ‘which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets. Moreover, you [exiles] did not listen [either],’ says the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Hear, therefore, the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in My Name, ‘Behold, I will hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slaughter them before your eyes [yes, all the false prophets in Babylon whom you follow shall die]! <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Because of them, this curse shall be taken up <i>and</i> used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>because they have acted foolishly in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and in My Name have spoken false <i>and</i> concocted words, which I did not command them. I am He who knows and I am a witness,” says the LORD.’” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Also you shall speak to Shemaiah of Nehelam [among the exiles in Babylon], saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“The LORD has made you [Zephaniah] priest instead of Jehoiada the [deputy] priest, to be the overseer in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>now therefore [continued the letter from Shemaiah in Babylon to Zephaniah in Jerusalem], why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesies to you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For he has sent <i>word</i> to us in Babylon, saying, <i>‘This captivity</i> [of yours] will be long; build houses and live <i>in them</i> and plant gardens and eat their fruit.’”’” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Send [this message] to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam, “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie,” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>therefore thus says the LORD, “Behold, I am about to punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He will not have anyone [born] to live among this people, nor will he see the good that I am about to do to My people,” says the LORD, “because he has spoken <i>and</i> preached rebellion against the LORD.”’”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> In Hebrew there are two ways of spelling the name of the ruler of Babylon resulting in two English variations: Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadrezzar.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>