Jeremiah 29
29:1And these are the words of the book which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the resettlement, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar resettled from Jerusalem unto Babylon,
29:2(after the coming forth of Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and every free man, and bondman, and craftsman from out of Jerusalem;)
29:3by the hand of Elasah son of Shaphan, and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Babylon into Babylon, saying,
29:4Thus said the lord of the forces, the God of Israel, unto the resettlement which he resettled from Jerusalem to Babylon;
29:5Build houses, and dwell, and plant gardens, and eat of their fruits!
29:6And take wives, and produce children, sons and daughters! And take for your sons wives, and for your daughters give husbands! and they shall bear sons and daughters, and they shall be multiplied, and shall not be diminished.
29:7And seek for peace of the land into which I resettled you there! And pray for them to the lord! for in their peace there will be peace to you.
29:8For thus said the lord of the forces, the God of Israel, Let not dissuade you the false prophets among you! And let not dissuade you your clairvoyants! And hearken not to your dreams which you dream!
29:9For by wrongdoing they prophesy to you in my name, and I sent them not, says the lord.
29:10For thus said the lord, Whenever seventy years is about to be filled in Babylon, I will visit you, and I will set my words upon you, to return your people unto this place.
29:11And I will devise for you a device of peace, and not evils, to give to you these things.
29:12And pray to me! and I will hearken to you.
29:13And seek after me! and you shall find me. For whenever you should seek after me with your entire heart,
29:14then I shall appear unto you.
29:15For you said, The lord placed prophets to us in Babylon.
29:16Thus says the lord to the king, the one sitting upon the throne of David, and to all the people, the one dwelling in this city, to your brethren, the ones not going forth with you into captivity.
29:17Thus says the lord of the forces, Behold, I shall send to them a sword, and famine, and pestilence. And I shall establish them as a bad fig which one shall not be able to eat because of the badness.
29:18And I shall pursue them with a sword, and famine, and pestilence. And I shall give them for movement in all the kingdoms of the earth, and for a curse, and for perplexity, and for a hissing, and for scorning to all the nations to whom I cast them.
29:19For they hearkened not to my words, says the lord, which I sent to them through my servants the prophets, rising early and sending; and they hearkened not, says the lord.
29:20You then hearken to the words of the lord! even all the displacement which I sent from Jerusalem into Babylon.
29:21Thus said the lord against Ahab son of Kolaiah, and against Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, the ones prophesying to you lies in my name. Behold, I give them into the hands of the king of Babylon. And he shall strike them before your eyes.
29:22And they shall take from them a curse in all the resettlement of Judah in Babylon, saying, Let the lord do to you as he did to Zedekiah, and as Ahab! whom the king of Babylon fried in fire.
29:23Because of the lawlessness which they did in Jerusalem, and they committed adultery with the women of their fellow-countrymen, and they executed a word by my name which I did not order to them; and I am witness, says the lord.
29:24And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say,
29:25I did not send you in my name. And to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest he said,
29:26The lord appointed you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to become supervisor in the house of the lord to every man prophesying, and to every man being maniacal, and you shall put him in the prison, and in the dungeon.
29:27And now, why did you not join in reviling Jeremiah, the one from Anathoth, the one prophesying to you?
29:28For on account of this, he sent to us in Babylon, saying, Freedom is far off -- build houses, and inhabit them, and plant gardens, and eat their fruit!
29:29And Zephaniah read the scroll into the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
29:30And came to pass the word of the lord to Jeremiah, saying,
29:31Send to all the resettlement, saying, Thus said the lord against Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Since Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he made you rely upon wrongdoing;
29:32on account of this, thus said the lord, Behold, I shall visit against Shemaiah, and against his kind; and there will not be to him a man in the midst of you to behold the good things which I shall do to you, says the lord; for he spoke defection against the lord.