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## Jeremiah 29:11-16 in Context (Verses 8–19 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/8) ¶ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that *be* in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/9) For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/10) ¶ For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/11) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/12) Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/13) And ye shall seek me, and find *me*, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/14) And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/15) ¶ Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
 
 [16 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/16) *Know* that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, *and* of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
 
 [17 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/17) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/18) And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/19) Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending *them;* but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
 
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