Jeremiah 29:5-15 (Revised Standard Version)
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Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.
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Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.
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But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.
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For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream,
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for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the LORD.
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"For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfil to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
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For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
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You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart,
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I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
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"Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,' --
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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