Jeremiah 29:10-14

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. ¹⁴ I will be found by you, declares the Lord, _b and I will restore your fortunes and _c gather you from all the nations and all the places _d where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

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.
    
11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 30:3
    For behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.
    
12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 23:3
    Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
    
13. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:3
    Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.