Jeremiah 29:15

Translations

Modern

Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”

Traditional

Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Literal

Because you have said, “YHWH has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,

Latin

Quia dixistis: Suscitavit nobis Dominus prophetas in Babylone:

Original

Hebrew

English

Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”

Notes

Jeremiah 29:15

False prophets were among the exiles. They promised that Jerusalem would survive and the Exile would end soon.

Jeremiah 29:1–23

Jeremiah sent a letter to the Hebrew exiles in Babylon. People read his letter many times in different settlements to reach all the scattered Israelites.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah Nebuchadnezzar II The Written Word

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 29:8–9
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
Ezekiel 1:3
…the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
Jeremiah 28:1–17
In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Ezekiel 1:1
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

Places

Babylon: Ancient Mesopotamian city, capital of Babylonian Empire, site of the Tower of Babel

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Book of Jeremiah

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