Jeremiah 29:28

28 For he has actually sent to us in Babylon, saying, "It will be a long time; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat what they produce."

Jeremiah 29:28 In-Context

26 The Lord himself has made you priest instead of the priest Jehoiada, so that there may be officers in the house of the Lord to control any madman who plays the prophet, to put him in the stocks and the collar.
27 So now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who plays the prophet for you?
28 For he has actually sent to us in Babylon, saying, "It will be a long time; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat what they produce."
29 The priest Zephaniah read this letter in the hearing of the prophet Jeremiah.
30 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
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