Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12And you shall call upon me, and you shall go: and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.
Cross References
Psalms 33:11But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Psalms 85:9I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.
Isaiah 40:1Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 24:5Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land oif the Chaldeans, for their own good.
Jeremiah 31:1At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of and they shall be my people.
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 →