Jeremiah 29:11

God assures the exiles that His plans for them are for peace and a future full of hope, not harm. Even in discipline, God's intentions toward His people are good.

Cross-references · 28

• Isa 55:8–12“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 33:11The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
• Mic 4:12But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
• Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
• Job 23:13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
• Lam 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
• Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• Ezek 34:11–31For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
• Jer 3:12–19Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
• Jer 31:1–33“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
• Joel 2:28–32“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
• Isa 40:1–31“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
• Hos 14:2–9Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
• Zeph 3:14–20Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
• Hos 2:14–23“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
• Jer 30:18–22Yahweh says: “Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited in its own place.
• Zech 12:5–10The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
• Mic 7:14–20Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Hos 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
• Zech 9:9–17Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Amos 9:8–15Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
• Zech 8:14–15For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;
• Ezek 36:1–37You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word.
• Mic 5:4–7He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
• Rev 14:8–14Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”
• Ezek 39:1–29You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
• Zech 14:20–21In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
• Zech 1:6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”

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