Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

In Context

10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:11The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.

Psalms 85:9Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.

Isaiah 40:1“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

Isaiah 55:8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 24:5“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will 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 →

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