Jeremiah 29:4 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 29:4

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon:

KJV

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

As the exile was God’s doing for their good, they were to make the best of their position, and acquire wealth and influence; whereas if they were always restlessly looking out for the opportunity of returning home, they would rapidly fall into poverty and dwindle away. Jer 29:7 Seek the peace of the city ... - Not only because their welfare for seventy years was bound up with that of Babylon, but because it would have degraded their whole moral nature to have lived as conspirators, banded together against the country that was for the time their home.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֹּ֥ה	koh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֛ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֖וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
אֱלֹהֵ֣י	'e.lo.Hei	[the] God of	H430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לְכָל־	le.khol	to all	H3605 →
הַ֨גּוֹלָ֔ה	ha.go.Lah	the exile[s]	H1473 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	whom	H834 →
הִגְלֵ֥יתִי	hig.Lei.ti	I sent into exile	H1540 →
מִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם	mi.ru.sha.Lim	from Jerusalem	H3389 →
בָּבֶֽלָה׃	ba.Ve.lah	Babylon towards	H894 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 7:13–14
  Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- Amos 3:6
  If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
- Psalms 75:7
  but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
- Job 2:10
  “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Isaiah 31:2
  Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
Through
Amos 3:6
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
leads to
- Isaiah 45:7
  I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Zephaniah 1:16
  a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
- Isaiah 14:24–27
  The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Jeremiah

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Jeremiah