Jeremiah:29

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* Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias , the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients that were carried into captivity , and to the priests , and to the prophets , and to all the people , whom Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon : * After that Jechonias the king , and the queen , and the eunuchs , and the princes of Juda , and of Jerusalem , and the craftsman , and the engravers were departed out of Jerusalem : * By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan , and Gamarias the son of Helcias , whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon , saying : * Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel , to all that are carried away captives , whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon : * Build ye houses , and dwell in them : and plant orchards , and eat the fruit of them . * Take ye wives , and beget sons and daughters : and take wives for your sons , and give your daughters to husbands , and let them bear sons and daughters : and be ye multiplied there , and be not few in number . * And seek the peace of the city , to which I have caused you to be carried away captives ; and pray to the Lord for it : for in the peace thereof shall be your peace . * For thus saith the Lord of hoses the God of Israel : Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you , and your diviners deceive you : and give no heed to your dreams which you dream : * For they prophesy falsely to you in my name : and I have not sent them , saith the Lord . * For thus saith the Lord : When the seventy years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon , I will visit you : and I will perform my good word in your favour , to bring you again to this place . * For I know the thoughts that I think towards you , saith the Lord , thoughts of peace , and not of affliction , to give you an end and patience . * And you shall call upon me , and you shall go : and you shall pray to me , and I will hear you . * You shall seek me , and shall And me : when you shall seek me with all your heart . * And I will be found by you , saith the Lord : and I will bring back your captivity , and I will gather you out of all nations , and from all the places to which I have driven you out , saith the Lord : and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive . * Because you have said : The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon : * For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne of David , and to all the people that dwell in this city , to your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity . * Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Behold I will send upon them the sword , and the famine , and the pestilence : and I will make them like bad figs that cannot be eaten , because they are very bad . * And I will persecute them with the sword , and with famine , and pith the pestilence : and I will give them up unto affliction to all the kingdoms of the earth : to be a curse , and an astonishment , and a hissing , and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them out : * Because they have not hearkened to my words , saith the Lord : which I sent to them by my servants the prophets , rising by night , and sending : and you have not heard , saith the Lord . * Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord , all ye of the captivity , whom I have sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon . * Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel , to Achab the son of Colias , and to Sedecias the son of Maasias , who prophesy unto you in my name falsely : Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon : and he shall kill them before your eyes . * And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda , that are in Babylon , saying : The Lord make thee like Sedecias , and like Achab , whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire : * Because they have acted folly in Israel , and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends , and have spoken lying words in my name , which I commanded them not : I am the judge and the witness , saith the Lord . * And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say : * Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel : Because thou hast sent letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem , and to Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest , and to all the priests , saying : * The Lord hath made thee priest in - stead of Joiada the priest , that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord , over every man that raveth and prophesieth , to put him in the stocks , and into prison . * And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite , who prophesieth to you ? * For he hath also sent to us in Babylon , saying : It is a long time : build ye houses , and dwell in them : and plant gardens , and eat the fruits of them . * So Sophonias the priest read this letter , in the hearing of Jeremias the prophet . * And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias , saying : * Send to all them of the captivity , saying : Thus saith the Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite : Because Semeias hath prophesied to you , and I sent him not : and hath caused you to trust in a lie : * Therefore thus saith the Lord : behold I will visit upon Semeias the Nehelamite , and upon his seed : he shall not have a man to sit in the midst of this people , and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people , saith the Lord : because he hath spoken treason against the Lord .

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