Jeremiah 29:16-20

16 but 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 fellow citizens who did not go with you into exile—
17 yes, this is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will send the sword, famine and plague against them and I will make them like figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.
18 I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse[a] and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.
19 For they have not listened to my words,” declares the LORD, “words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either,” declares the LORD.
20 Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Cross References 10

  • 1. Jeremiah 27:8
  • 2. S Isaiah 5:4; Jeremiah 24:8-10
  • 3. S Jeremiah 15:4
  • 4. S Numbers 5:27; S Jeremiah 18:16; S Jeremiah 22:10; Jeremiah 44:12
  • 5. S Deuteronomy 28:25; Jeremiah 42:18
  • 6. S Deuteronomy 28:37; S Isaiah 28:22; S Micah 2:6
  • 7. Jeremiah 6:19
  • 8. Jeremiah 7:25
  • 9. S Jeremiah 25:4
  • 10. S Jeremiah 24:5

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. That is, their names will be used in cursing (see verse 22); or, others will see that they are cursed.
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