Jeremiah 29:14
I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.
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15For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:7For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?
Deuteronomy 30:5Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.
2 Chronicles 15:12And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;
Psalms 46:1To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.
Psalms 126:4Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.
Isaiah 45:19I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 29:9-15
Advice to the Captives in Babylon. ( b. c. 596.) 8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord . 10 For thus saith the Lord , That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 11 For… Read the whole commentary →