World English Bible
Jeremiah 29:28
“because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 29
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Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
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Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
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because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?
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Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
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Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
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