Jeremiah 29

1Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,Cross-references: 2Chr 30:1 · Esth 9:20 · Jer 24:1 · Jer 28:4 · Jer 29:25 · Acts 15:23 · +4 more

2(after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem),Cross-references: 2Ki 9:32 · 2Ki 20:18 · 2Ki 24:12 · 2Chr 36:9 · Jer 22:24 · Jer 24:1 · +3 more

3by 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). It said:Cross-references: 2Ki 22:8 · 2Ki 22:12 · 1Chr 6:13 · 2Chr 34:20 · Jer 26:24 · Jer 36:25 · +2 more

4Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:Cross-references: Isa 5:5 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 45:7 · Isa 59:1 · Jer 24:5 · Amos 3:6

5“Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.Cross-references: Jer 29:10 · Jer 29:28 · Ezek 28:26

6Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.Cross-references: Gen 1:27 · Gen 9:7 · Gen 21:21 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 24:51 · Gen 24:60 · +9 more

7Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”Cross-references: Ezra 6:10 · Ezra 7:23 · Dan 4:19 · Dan 4:27 · Dan 6:4 · Rom 13:1 · +3 more

8For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.Cross-references: Jer 5:31 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:21 · Jer 23:27 · Jer 27:9 · Jer 27:14 · +20 more

9For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Jer 27:15 · Jer 29:23 · Jer 29:31

10For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:21 · Jer 24:6 · Jer 25:12 · Jer 27:7 · Jer 27:22 · Jer 32:42 · +3 more

11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.Cross-references: Job 23:13 · Ps 33:11 · Ps 40:5 · Isa 40:1 · Isa 46:10 · Isa 55:8 · +22 more

12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.Cross-references: Neh 2:4 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 102:16 · Ps 145:19 · Isa 30:19 · +7 more

13You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 30:1 · 1Ki 2:4 · 1Ki 8:47 · 2Ki 23:3 · +20 more

14I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you,” says Yahweh. “I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”Cross-references: Deut 4:7 · Deut 30:3 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 15:12 · Ps 32:6 · Ps 46:1 · +24 more

15Because you have said, “Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”Cross-references: Jer 28:1 · Jer 29:8 · Ezek 1:1 · Ezek 1:3

16Yahweh says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity,Cross-references: Jer 24:2 · Jer 29:3 · Jer 38:2 · Jer 38:17 · Ezek 6:1 · Ezek 17:12 · +3 more

17Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.Cross-references: Jer 15:2 · Jer 24:1 · Jer 24:8 · Jer 27:8 · Jer 29:18 · Jer 34:17 · +6 more

18I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 29:21 · 1Ki 9:7 · 2Chr 7:19 · +19 more

19because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Jer 6:19 · Jer 7:13 · Jer 7:24 · Jer 25:3 · Jer 26:5 · Jer 32:33 · +6 more

20Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.Cross-references: Jer 24:5 · Ezek 3:11 · Ezek 3:15 · Mic 4:10

21Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes.Cross-references: Jer 14:14 · Jer 29:8 · Lam 2:14

22A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’Cross-references: Gen 48:20 · Ruth 4:11 · Isa 65:15 · Dan 3:6 · Dan 3:21 · 1Cor 16:22

23because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 50:16 · Prov 5:21 · Jer 7:9 · Jer 13:27 · Jer 16:17 · Jer 23:14 · +12 more

24Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,Cross-references: Jer 29:31

25“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,Cross-references: 1Ki 21:8 · 2Ki 10:1 · 2Ki 19:9 · 2Ki 19:14 · 2Ki 25:18 · 2Chr 32:17 · +9 more

26“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.Cross-references: Deut 13:1 · 2Ki 9:11 · 2Ki 11:15 · 2Ki 11:18 · 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 18:26 · +20 more

27Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,Cross-references: Num 16:3 · 2Chr 25:16 · Jer 1:1 · Jer 29:26 · Jer 43:2 · Amos 7:12 · +6 more

28because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”Cross-references: Jer 29:1 · Jer 29:5 · Jer 29:10

29Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.Cross-references: Jer 29:25

30Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,

31“Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie,”Cross-references: Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:21 · Jer 28:15 · Jer 29:9 · Jer 29:23 · Ezek 13:8 · +2 more

32therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.”’”Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Num 16:27 · Josh 7:24 · 1Sam 2:30 · 2Ki 5:27 · 2Ki 7:2 · +11 more