Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Jeremiah 29:20

BabylonJerusalem

18 I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.

19 I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

22 Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’

Read the whole chapter

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
So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
KJV
Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
WEB
Hear therefore the LORD’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
ASV
Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
DARBY
But ye, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of Jehovah.
BLB
And you⁺, hear the word of YHWH, all of the captivity whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
ÅB
Men hør nå dere Herrens ord, alle dere bortførte som jeg har sendt fra Jerusalem til Babel!
OTB
Så, hør Herrens ord, alle dere bortførte som jeg har sendt bort fra Jerusalem til Babylon.
B1930
Men hør nu I Herrens ord, alle I bortførte som jeg har sendt fra Jerusalem til Babel!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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.

    Read in context

  • Micah 4:10

    Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

    Read in context

  • Ezekiel 3:11

    Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”

    Read in context

  • Ezekiel 3:15

    I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

    Read in context