Jeremiah 29:15

Bible in Basic English

For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You have said, “The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon!”

Hebrew Names Version
Because you have said, the LORD has raised us up prophets in Bavel;

King James Version
Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

English Standard Version
"Because you have said, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,'

New American Standard Bible
"Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'—

New Century Version
You might say, "The Lord has given us prophets here in Babylon."

Amplified Bible
"Because you [who have remained in Jerusalem] have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,'

World English Bible
Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Because ye haue sayd, The Lord hath raised vs vp Prophets in Babel,

Legacy Standard Bible
"Because you have said, ‘Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'—

Berean Standard Bible
Because you may say, "The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,"

Contemporary English Version
You feel secure, because you think I have sent prophets to speak for me in Babylonia.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You say that Adonai has raised up prophets for you in Bavel.

Darby Translation
If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Easy-to-Read Version
You people might say, "But the Lord has given us prophets here in Babylon."

George Lamsa Translation
Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Good News Translation
"You say that the Lord has given you prophets in Babylonia.

Lexham English Bible
Because you have said, ‘Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'—

Literal Translation
Because you have said, Jehovah has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But where as ye saye, that God hath raysed you vp prophetes at Babilon:

American Standard Version
Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For ye have said: 'The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.'

King James Version (1611)
Because yee haue said, The Lord hath raised vs vp prophets in Babylon:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But where as ye say that God hath raysed you vp prophetes at Babylon,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have made thee small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.

English Revised Version
For ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For ye seiden, The Lord schal reise profetis to vs in Babiloyne.

Update Bible Version
Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Webster's Bible Translation
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us prophets in Babylon;

New English Translation
"You say, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets of good news for us here in Babylon.'

New King James Version
Because you have said, "The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon"--

New Living Translation
You claim that the Lord has raised up prophets for you in Babylon.

New Life Bible
"You have said that the Lord has given men who speak for Him in Babylon.

New Revised Standard
Because you have said, "The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,"—

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because ye have said, - Yahweh hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:

Revised Standard Version
"Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,' --

Young's Literal Translation
`Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,

THE MESSAGE
"But for right now, because you've taken up with these newfangled prophets who set themselves up as ‘Babylonian specialists,' spreading the word ‘ God sent them just for us!' God is setting the record straight: As for the king still sitting on David's throne and all the people left in Jerusalem who didn't go into exile with you, they're facing bad times. God -of-the-Angel-Armies says, ‘Watch this! Catastrophe is on the way: war, hunger, disease! They're a barrel of rotten apples. I'll rid the country of them through war and hunger and disease. The whole world is going to hold its nose at the smell, shut its eyes at the horrible sight. They'll end up in slum ghettos because they wouldn't listen to a thing I said when I sent my servant-prophets preaching tirelessly and urgently. No, they wouldn't listen to a word I said.'" God 's Decree.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'—

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon. ¹⁶ For this is what the Lord has said about the king who is seated on the seat of David's kingdom, and about all the people living in this town, your countrymen who have not gone out with you as prisoners; ¹⁷ This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will send on them the sword and need of food and disease, and will make them like bad figs, which are of no use for food, they are so bad. ¹⁸ I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them: ¹⁹ Because they have not given ear to my words, says the Lord, when I sent to them my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you did not give ear, says the Lord. ²⁰ And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon. ²¹ This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are saying to you what is false in my name: See, I will give them up into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes. ²² And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon; ²³ Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
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Jeremiah 29:8, Jeremiah 29:9, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 1:3

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 29:20 - hear

Cross-References

Genesis 30:28
Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.

Genesis 31:7
But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because ye have said,.... That is, some of them; for here the Lord, by the prophet, turns from the godly among the captives, whom he had been advising, encouraging, and comforting before, to those who gave heed to the false prophets, who promised them a speedy return to their own land, and which they believed; and therefore rejected and despised the prophecies of Jeremiah, and others:

the Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; and therefore stood in no need of other prophets that were in Judea, or in Jerusalem, nor should hearken to them; but believe those that were raised up among themselves, rather than others at a distance; and though these were false prophets, yet, being such that prophesied to them things that were agreeable, they were willing to believe them, and to consider them, and receive them, as prophets sent of God, when they were not.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 29:15. Because ye have said — The Septuagint very properly insert this verse between the twentieth and the twenty-first, and thus the connexion here is not disturbed, and the connexion below completed.