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Jeremiah 29

29This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.H1697H5612H3414H5030H7971H3389H3499H2205H1473H3548H5030H5971H5019H1540H3389H8942(This was after King Jehoiachin and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the artisans and the other skilled workers had gone into exile from Jerusalem.)H310H3204H4428H1377H5631H8269H3063H3389H2796H4525H3318H33893He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It said:H3027H501H1121H8227H1587H1121H2518H6667H4428H3063H7971H894H5019H4428H894H5594This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1473H1540H3389H8945"Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H65296Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.H3947H802H3205H1121H1323H3947H802H1121H5414H1323H582H3205H1121H1121H7235H45917Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."H1875H7965H5892H1540H6419H3068H7965H79658Yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H5030H7080H7130H5377H8085H2472H24929They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I have not sent them," declares the LORD.H5012H8267H8034H7971H5002H306810This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.H559H3068H6310H7657H8141H4390H894H6485H6965H2896H1697H7725H472511For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.H3045H4284H2803H5002H3068H4284H7965H7451H5414H8615H31912Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.H7121H1980H6419H808513You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.H1245H4672H1875H382414I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."H4672H5002H3068H7725H7622H7622H6908H1471H4725H5080H5002H3068H7725H4725H154015You may say, "The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,"H559H3068H6965H5030H89416but this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David's throne and all the people who remain in this city, your fellow citizens who did not go with you into exile—H559H3068H4428H3427H3678H1732H5971H3427H5892H251H3318H147317yes, this is what the LORD Almighty says: "I will send the sword, famine and plague against them and I will make them like figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.H559H3068H6635H7971H2719H7458H1698H5414H8182H8384H398H745518I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.H7291H310H2719H7458H1698H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H423H8047H8322H2781H1471H508019For they have not listened to my words," declares the LORD, "words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either," declares the LORD.H8085H1697H5002H3068H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H8085H5002H306820Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.H8085H1697H3068H1473H7971H3389H89421This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name: "I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H256H1121H6964H6667H1121H4641H5012H8267H8034H5414H3027H5019H4428H894H5221H586922Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: 'May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.'H3947H7045H1546H3063H894H559H3068H7760H6667H256H4428H894H7033H78423For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know it and am a witness to it," declares the LORD.H6213H5039H3478H6213H5003H7453H802H1696H8267H1697H8034H6680H3045H5707H5002H306824Tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite,H559H8098H5161H55925"This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You sent letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the other priests. You said to Zephaniah,H559H3068H6635H430H3478H559H7971H5612H8034H5971H3389H6846H1121H4641H3548H3548H55926'The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada to be in charge of the house of the LORD; you should put any crazy person who acts like a prophet into the stocks and neck-irons.H3068H5414H3548H3077H3548H6496H1004H3068H376H7696H5012H5414H4115H672927So why have you not reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?H1605H3414H6069H501228He has sent this message to us in Babylon: It will be a long time. Therefore build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.'"H7971H894H559H1931H752H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H652929Zephaniah the priest, however, read the letter to Jeremiah the prophet.H6846H3548H7121H5612H241H3414H503030Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:H1697H3068H3414H55931"Send this message to all the exiles: 'This is what the LORD says about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, even though I did not send him, and has persuaded you to trust in lies,H7971H1473H559H559H3068H8098H5161H8098H5012H7971H982H826732this is what the LORD says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the LORD, because he has preached rebellion against me.' "H559H3068H6485H8098H5161H2233H376H3427H8432H5971H7200H2896H6213H5971H5002H3068H1696H5627H3068


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