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## Jeremiah 29:17-21 in Context (Verses 14–24 KJV)
 
 [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.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/20) ¶ Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
 
 [21 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/21) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
 
 [22 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/22) And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which *are* in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
 
 [23 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/23) Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and *am* a witness, saith the LORD.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/jeremiah/29/24) ¶ *Thus* shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,*
 
[Jeremiah 28](/kjv/jeremiah/28) [Jeremiah 30](/kjv/jeremiah/30)

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