Jeremiah 29:8

their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, you⌃ that inhabit Daedam, for he has wrought grievously: I brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7How shall it be quiet, whereas the Lord has given it a commission against Ascalon, and against the regions on the sea-coast, to awake against the remaining countries! CONCERNING IDUMEA, thus says the Lord; There is no longer wisdom in Thaeman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,

9For grape gatherers are come, who shall not leave you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon your possessions.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 14:14Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and auguries, and devices of their own heart.

Jeremiah 23:21I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23:27who devise that men may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name in the worship of Baal.

Jeremiah 27:14Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you⌃ that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,

Jeremiah 28:15The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.

Jeremiah 29:21For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 29:2-8

Advice to the Captives in Babylon. ( b. c. 596.) 1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; 2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;) 3 By the hand of… Read the whole commentary →

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