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Jeremiah 29:11

World English Bible

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”

What was happening around this

Yahweh speaks through a letter Jeremiah sends to captives carried from Jerusalem to Babylon. The verse immediately before it says the promise follows seventy years in Babylon, which is the part the verse is usually quoted without.

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