Jeremiah 29:15 “Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylo…”

Jeremiah 29:15

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Because you have said, “The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Because ye haue sayd, The Lord hath raised vs vp Prophets in Babel,

Darby Translation

If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Young's Literal Translation

'Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,

Bible in Basic English

For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon.

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Cross references

“Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;”

Jeremiah 28:1–17 Ezekiel 1:1 Ezekiel 1:3 Jeremiah 29:8 Jeremiah 29:9

Jeremiah 28:1–17 · BSB

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 presenc…

Ezekiel 1:1 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 1:3 · BSB

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 29:8 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 29:9 · BSB

For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

16this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—

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