The Scriptures 1998

Jeremiah 29:7-15 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

7. ‘And seek the peace of the city where I have exiled you, and pray to יהוה for it, for in its peace you have peace.’

8. “For thus said יהוה of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Let not your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, neither listen to the dreams which you are dreaming.

9. ‘For they are prophesying falsely to you in My Name. I have not sent them,’ declares יהוה.

10. “For thus said יהוה, ‘When seventy years are completed, at Baḇel I shall visit you and establish My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place.

11. ‘For I know the plans I am planning for you,’ declares יהוה, ‘plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy.

12. ‘Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you.

13. ‘And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

14. ‘And I shall be found by you,’ declares יהוה, ‘and I shall turn back your captivity, and shall gather you from all the gentiles and from all the places where I have driven you, declares יהוה. And I shall bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.’

15. “Because you have said, ‘יהוה has raised up prophets for us in Baḇel’ –