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Jeremiah 29
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Message to the Exiles

29Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.H1697H5612H3414H5030H7971H3389H3499H2205H1473H3548H5030H5971H5019H1540H3389H894 2(This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)H310H3204H4428H1377H5631H8269H3063H3389H2796H4525H3318H3389 3[The letter was sent] by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,H3027H501H1121H8227H1587H1121H2518H6667H4428H3063H7971H894H5019H4428H894H559 4"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1473H1540H3389H894 5'Build houses and live [in them;] and plant gardens, and eat their produce.H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H6529 6'Take wives and become the fathers of 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 decrease.H3947H802H3205H1121H1323H3947H802H1121H5414H1323H582H3205H1121H1121H7235H4591 7'And seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.'H1875H7965H5892H1540H6419H3068H7965H7965 8"For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H5030H7080H7130H5377H8085H2472H2492 9'For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,' declares the LORD.H5012H8267H8034H7971H5002H3068 10"For thus says the LORD, 'When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.H559H3068H6310H7657H8141H4390H894H6485H6965H2896H1697H7725H4725 11'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, ' plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.H3045H4284H2803H5002H3068H4284H7965H7451H5414H8615H319 12'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.H7121H1980H6419H8085 13'And you will seek Me and find [Me,] when you search for Me with all your heart.H1245H4672H1875H3824 14'And I will be found by you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.'H4672H5002H3068H7725H7622H7622H6908H1471H4725H5080H5002H3068H7725H4725H1540 15"Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'—H559H3068H6965H5030H894 16for 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 did not go with you into exile—H559H3068H4428H3427H3678H1732H5971H3427H5892H251H3318H1473 17thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.H559H3068H6635H7971H2719H7458H1698H5414H8182H8384H398H7455 18'And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and a horror, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,H7291H310H2719H7458H1698H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H423H8047H8322H2781H1471H5080 19because they have not listened to My words, 'declares the LORD,' which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,' declares the LORD.H8085H1697H5002H3068H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H8085H5002H3068 20"You, therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.H8085H1697H3068H1473H7971H3389H894 21"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 to you falsely in My name, 'Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H256H1121H6964H6667H1121H4641H5012H8267H8034H5414H3027H5019H4428H894H5221H5869 22'And because of them a curse shall be 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,H3947H7045H1546H3063H894H559H3068H7760H6667H256H4428H894H7033H784 23because they have acted foolishly 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 a witness, "declares the LORD. '"H6213H5039H3478H6213H5003H7453H802H1696H8267H1697H8034H6680H3045H5707H5002H3068 24And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,H559H8098H5161H559 25"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,H559H3068H6635H430H3478H559H7971H5612H8034H5971H3389H6846H1121H4641H3548H3548H559 26"The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the 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,H3068H5414H3548H3077H3548H6496H1004H3068H376H7696H5012H5414H4115H6729 27now then, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who prophesies to you?H1605H3414H6069H5012 28"For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, '[The exile] will be long; build houses and live [in them] and plant gardens and eat their produce.'" '"H7971H894H559H1931H752H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H6529 29And Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.H6846H3548H7121H5612H241H3414H5030 30Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,H1697H3068H3414H559 31"Send to all the exiles, saying, 'Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite," Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie, "H7971H1473H559H559H3068H8098H5161H8098H5012H7971H982H8267 32therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants; he shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I am about to do to My people," declares the LORD, "because he has preached rebellion against the LORD." '"H559H3068H6485H8098H5161H2233H376H3427H8432H5971H7200H2896H6213H5971H5002H3068H1696H5627H3068


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