New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jeremiah 29
5 ’Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.
6 Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.
7 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 have welfare.’
8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ’Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.
9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,’ declares the Lord.
10 "For thus says the Lord, ’When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.
11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ’plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
14 I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord, ’and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the Lord, ’and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’
15 "Because you have said, ’The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon’-
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