Jeremiah 29:15
13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
16 this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—
17 this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
- KJV
- Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
- WEB
- Because you have said, “The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”
- ASV
- Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
- DARBY
- If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
- BLB
- Because you⁺ have said, “YHWH has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,
- ÅB
- [Dette skriver jeg] fordi dere sier: Herren har latt profeter fremstå for oss i Babel.
- OTB
- Fordi dere har sagt: “Herren har reist opp profeter for oss i Babylon”—
- B1930
- [Dette skriver jeg] fordi I sier: Herren har latt profeter fremstå for oss i Babel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 1:1
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
Read in contextEzekiel 1:3
the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
Read in contextJeremiah 28:1–17
In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Read in contextJeremiah 29:8–9
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
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