Jeremiah 29
1 and these word [the] scroll: document which to send: depart Jeremiah [the] prophet from Jerusalem to(wards) remainder old: elder [the] captivity and to(wards) [the] priest and to(wards) [the] prophet and to(wards) all [the] people which to reveal: remove Nebuchadnezzar from Jerusalem Babylon [to]
This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 after to come out: come Jeconiah [the] king and [the] queen and [the] eunuch ruler Judah and Jerusalem and [the] artificer and [the] locksmith from Jerusalem
(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
3 in/on/with hand Elasah son: child Shaphan and Gemariah son: child Hilkiah which to send: depart Zedekiah king Judah to(wards) Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon Babylon [to] to/for to say
The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:
4 thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel to/for all [the] captivity which to reveal: remove from Jerusalem Babylon [to]
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 to build house: home and to dwell and to plant garden and to eat [obj] fruit their
“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.
6 to take: take woman: wife and to beget son: child and daughter and to take: take to/for son: child your woman: wife and [obj] daughter your to give: give(marriage) to/for human and to beget son: child and daughter and to multiply there and not to diminish
Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.
7 and to seek [obj] peace: well-being [the] city which to reveal: remove [obj] you there [to] and to pray about/through/for her to(wards) LORD for in/on/with peace: well-being her to be to/for you peace: well-being
Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
8 for thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel not to deceive to/for you prophet your which in/on/with entrails: among your and to divine your and not to hear: hear to(wards) dream your which you(m. p.) to dream
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.
9 for in/on/with deception they(masc.) to prophesy to/for you in/on/with name my not to send: depart them utterance LORD
For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”
10 for thus to say LORD for to/for lip to fill to/for Babylon seventy year to reckon: visit [obj] you and to arise: establish upon you [obj] word: promised my [the] pleasant to/for to return: return [obj] you to(wards) [the] place [the] this
For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
11 for I to know [obj] [the] plot which I to devise: devise upon you utterance LORD plot peace: well-being and not to/for distress: evil to/for to give: give to/for you end and hope
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
12 and to call: call to [obj] me and to go: come and to pray to(wards) me and to hear: hear to(wards) you
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
13 and to seek [obj] me and to find for to seek me in/on/with all heart your
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
14 and to find to/for you utterance LORD and to return: rescue [obj] (captivity your *Q(k)*) and to gather [obj] you from all [the] nation and from all [the] place which to banish [obj] you there utterance LORD and to return: return [obj] you to(wards) [the] place which to reveal: remove [obj] you from there
I 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.”
15 for to say to arise: rise to/for us LORD prophet Babylon [to]
Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
16 for thus to say LORD to(wards) [the] king [the] to dwell to(wards) throne David and to(wards) all [the] people [the] to dwell in/on/with city [the] this brother: male-relative your which not to come out: come with you in/on/with captivity
this 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—
17 thus to say LORD Hosts look! I to send: depart in/on/with them [obj] [the] sword [obj] [the] famine and [obj] [the] pestilence and to give: make [obj] them like/as fig [the] disgusting which not to eat from evil
this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
18 and to pursue after them in/on/with sword in/on/with famine and in/on/with pestilence and to give: make them (to/for horror *Q(K)*) to/for all kingdom [the] land: country/planet to/for oath and to/for horror: appalled and to/for hissing and to/for reproach in/on/with all [the] nation which to banish them there
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
19 underneath: because of which not to hear: hear to(wards) word my utterance LORD which to send: depart to(wards) them [obj] servant/slave my [the] prophet to rise and to send: depart and not to hear: hear utterance LORD
I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
20 and you(m. p.) to hear: hear word LORD all [the] captivity which to send: depart from Jerusalem Babylon [to]
So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
21 thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel to(wards) Ahab son: child Kolaiah and to(wards) Zedekiah son: child Maaseiah [the] to prophesy to/for you in/on/with name my deception look! I to give: give [obj] them in/on/with hand: power Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon and to smite them to/for eye your
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.
22 and to take: bring from them curse to/for all captivity Judah which in/on/with Babylon to/for to say to set: make you LORD like/as Zedekiah and like/as Ahab which to roast them king Babylon in/on/with fire
Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
23 because which to make folly in/on/with Israel and to commit adultery [obj] woman: wife neighbor their and to speak: speak word in/on/with name my deception which not to command them and I ([the] to know *Q(K)*) and witness utterance LORD
For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
24 and to(wards) Shemaiah [the] Nehelam to say to/for to say
You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that
25 thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel to/for to say because which you(m. s.) to send: depart in/on/with name your scroll: document to(wards) all [the] people which in/on/with Jerusalem and to(wards) Zephaniah son: child Maaseiah [the] priest and to(wards) all [the] priest to/for to say
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
26 LORD to give: make you priest underneath: instead Jehoiada [the] priest to/for to be overseer house: temple LORD to/for all man be mad and to prophesy and to give: put [obj] him to(wards) [the] stocks and to(wards) [the] stocks
‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
27 and now to/for what? not to rebuke in/on/with Jeremiah [the] Anathoth [the] to prophesy to/for you
So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
28 for as that: since as as to send: depart to(wards) us Babylon to/for to say long he/she/it to build house: home and to dwell and to plant garden and to eat [obj] fruit their
For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
29 and to call: read out Zephaniah [the] priest [obj] [the] scroll: document [the] this in/on/with ear: hearing Jeremiah [the] prophet
(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
30 and to be word LORD to(wards) Jeremiah to/for to say
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
31 to send: depart upon all [the] captivity to/for to say thus to say LORD to(wards) Shemaiah [the] Nehelam because which to prophesy to/for you Shemaiah and I not to send: depart him and to trust [obj] you upon deception
“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
32 to/for so thus to say LORD look! I to reckon: punish upon Shemaiah [the] Nehelam and upon seed: children his not to be to/for him man: anyone to dwell in/on/with midst [the] people [the] this and not to see: see in/on/with good which I to make: do to/for people my utterance LORD for revolt to speak: speak upon LORD
this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
