Jeremiah 29:14
And I will be found by you, says the Lord. And I will lead you back from your captivity. And I will gather you from all the nations and all the places, to which I have expelled you, says the Lord. And I will return you from the place to which I sent you into captivity.
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In Context
13You shall seek me. And you will find me, when you have sought me with your whole heart.
15For you have said: ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.’
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:7Neither is there any other nation so great, which has its gods so near to them, as our God is present to all our petitions.
Deuteronomy 30:5And he will take you up and lead you into the land which your fathers had possessed, and you shall obtain it. And in blessing you, he will make you greater in number than your fathers ever were.
2 Chronicles 15:12And he entered, according to custom, in order to confirm the covenant, so that they would seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with their whole heart and with their whole soul.
Psalms 46:1Unto the end. A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
Psalms 126:4Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out.
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I have not said to the offspring of Jacob, “Seek me in vain.” I am the Lord, who speaks justice, who announces what is right.
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 →