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Jeremiah 29:11
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9 For they prophesy afalsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord. 
10 For thus says the Lord: After aseventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to breturn to this place.  
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
12 Then you will acall upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will blisten to you.  
13 And ayou will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me bwith all your heart.  
14 aI will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; bI will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive. 
15 Because you have said, “The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon”—
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 29:11

I know—I alone; not the false prophets who know nothing of My purposes, though they pretend to know.

thoughts . . . I think— (Isaiah 55:9). Glancing at the Jews who had no "thoughts of peace," but only of "evil" (misfortune), because they could not conceive how deliverance could come to them. The moral malady of man is twofold—at one time vain confidence; then, when that is disappointed, despair. So the Jews first laughed at God's threats, confident that they should speedily return; then, when cast down from that confidence, they sank in inconsolable despondency.

expected end—literally, "end and expectation," that is, an end, and that such an end as you wish for. Two nouns joined by "and," standing for a noun and adjective. So in Jeremiah 36:27, "the roll and the words," that is, the roll of words; Genesis 3:16, "sorrow and conception," that is, sorrow in conception. Compare Proverbs 23:18, where, as here "end" means "a happy issue."




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 29:11:

Jeremiah 29:15
Zechariah 1:13
1 Corinthians 10:13

 

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