Jeremiah 29:10-13

Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles

10 "For thus says the Lord: t When seventy years are completed for Babylon, u I will visit you, v and I will fulfill to you my promise v and bring you back to this place. 11 w For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare 1 and not for evil, x to give you a future and a hope. 12 y Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, y and I will hear you. 13 z You will seek me and find me, when you seek me a with all your heart.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:12
    Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:22
    They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the Lord. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 33:14
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
    Jeremiah 24:6
    I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 33:14
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
    Jeremiah 24:6
    I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 55:8 - 9
    For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:17
    There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 33:3
    Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
    Daniel 9:3
    Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
  8. Cross References
    Jeremiah 33:3
    Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
    Daniel 9:3
    Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
  9. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 15:2
    And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "H...
    Psalms 32:6
    Therefore let everyone who is godly offer praye...
    Psalms 78:34
    When he killed them, they sought him; they repe...
    Proverbs 8:17
    I love those who love me, and those who seek me...
    Isaiah 55:6
    Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon ...
    Hosea 3:5
    Afterward the children of Israel shall return a...
    Leviticus 26:39 - 42
    And those of you who are left shall rot away in...
    Deuteronomy 30:1 - 3
    And when all these things come upon you, the bl...
  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 24:7
    I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
    Deuteronomy 4:29
    But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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