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Jeremiah 29 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Jeremiah’s Letter to the Captives
Jeremiah’s Letter to the Captives

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive—to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (This happened after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:3 - 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,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4 - Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:5 - Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:6 - Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:7 - And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:9 - For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:12 - Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:13 - And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:14 - I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:15 - Because you have said, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:16 - therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, concerning all the people who dwell in this city, and concerning your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth—to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:19 - because they have not heeded My words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:20 - Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 - Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and 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 shall slay them before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire”;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:23 - because they have done disgraceful things in Israel, have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them. Indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:24 - You shall also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:25 - Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:26 - “The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there should be officers in the house of the LORD over every man who is demented and considers himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison and in the stocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:27 - Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who makes himself a prophet to you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:28 - For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘This captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:29 - Now Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:30 - Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:31 - Send to all those in captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I have not sent him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:32 - therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his family: he shall not have anyone to dwell among this people, nor shall he see the good that I will do for My people, says the LORD, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.
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