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Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles

Jeremiah 29:15

In 10 translations

BSB
Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
KJV
¶ Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
WEB
Because you have said, “Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”
ASV
Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
LSV
Because you have said, YHWH has raised up prophets to us in Babylon,
YLT
'Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,
DBY
If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
DRC
Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:
GNV
Because ye haue sayd, The Lord hath raised vs vp Prophets in Babel,
JPS
For ye have said: 'The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.'

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֖י אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם הֵקִ֨ים לָ֧נוּ יְהוָ֛ה נְבִאִ֖ים בָּבֶֽלָה׃

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👤 God📍 Babylon◆ Prophecies of Jeremiah

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 1:3the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
  • Ezekiel 1:1In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
  • Jeremiah 28:1–17In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the…
  • Jeremiah 29:8–9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them. For they are falsely prophesying to you in…

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  • 36:15 in some Bibles

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