Jeremiah 29:11

for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished each by the hand of his brother, my neighbor, and it is impossible

12For thus says the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk it; and you shall by no means be cleared:

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Cross References

Psalms 33:11Come, you⌃ children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 1

Psalms 85:9All nations whom you have made shall come, and shall worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name. 1

Isaiah 40:1Comfort you⌃, comfort you⌃ my people, says God.

Isaiah 55:8For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 24:5Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.

Jeremiah 31:1Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.

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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