New International Version This is what the LORD says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. New Living Translation This is what the LORD says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. English Standard Version “For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. Berean Standard Bible For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. Berean Literal Bible For thus says YHWH: “Surely after seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you⁺ and perform My good word over you⁺, to make you⁺ return to this place. King James Bible For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. New King James Version For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. New American Standard Bible “For this is what the LORD says: ‘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. NASB 1995 “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. NASB 1977 “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. Legacy Standard Bible “For thus says Yahweh, ‘When seventy years have been fulfilled for Babylon, I will visit you and establish My good word to you, to return you to this place. Amplified Bible “For thus says the LORD, ‘When seventy years [of exile] have been completed for Babylon, I will visit (inspect) you and keep My good promise to you, to bring you back to this place. Berean Annotated Bible For this is what the LORD {YHWH} says: “When Babylon’s (confusion by mixing) seventy years are complete, I will attend to you⁺ and confirm My promise to restore you⁺ to this place. Christian Standard Bible For this is what the LORD says: “When seventy years for Babylon are complete, I will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place. Holman Christian Standard Bible For this is what the LORD says: “When 70 years for Babylon are complete, I will attend to you and will confirm My promise concerning you to restore you to this place. American Standard Version For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Contemporary English Version After Babylonia has been the strongest nation for 70 years, I will be kind and bring you back to Jerusalem, just as I have promised. English Revised Version For thus saith the LORD, After seventy years be accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. GOD'S WORD® Translation This is what the LORD says: When Babylon's 70 years are over, I will come to you. I will keep my promise to you and bring you back to this place. Good News Translation "The LORD says, 'When Babylonia's seventy years are over, I will show my concern for you and keep my promise to bring you back home. International Standard Version "For this is what the LORD says: 'When Babylon's seventy years are completed, I'll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place. NET Bible "For the LORD says, 'Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule are over will I again take up consideration for you. Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore you to your homeland. New Heart English Bible "For thus says the LORD, 'After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Webster's Bible Translation For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years shall be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return to this place. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleFor this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. World English Bible For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor thus said YHWH: Surely at the fullness of Babylon—seventy years—I inspect you, and have established My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place. Berean Literal Bible For thus says YHWH: “Surely after seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you⁺ and perform My good word over you⁺, to make you⁺ return to this place. Young's Literal Translation 'For thus said Jehovah, Surely at the fulness of Babylon -- seventy years -- I inspect you, and have established towards you My good word, to bring you back unto this place. Smith's Literal Translation For thus said Jehovah, That according to the filling up to Babel of seventy years I will review you and lift up to you my good word to turn you back to this place. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good word in your favour, to bring you again to this place. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord: When the seventy years will begin to be completed in Babylon, I will visit you. And I will raise up over you my good word, so that I may lead you back to this place. New American Bible For thus says the LORD: Only after seventy years have elapsed for Babylon will I deal with you and fulfill for you my promise to bring you back to this place. New Revised Standard Version For thus says the LORD: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon I will deliver you and perform my good word toward you in bringing you back to this country. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because thus says LORD JEHOVAH: ‘When seventy years are full to Babel, I shall save you and I shall establish for you the good word to return you to this country OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For thus saith the LORD: After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will remember you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Brenton Septuagint Translation For thus said the Lord; When seventy years shall be on the point of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm my words to you, to bring back your people to this place. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible (Voice ▾ Musical ▾) Context Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles…9For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.” 10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. 11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.… Cross References For this is what the LORD says: 2 Kings 19:32 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it. Isaiah 43:1 But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine! Ezekiel 36:22 Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went. “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, 2 Chronicles 36:21-23 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah. / In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: / “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’” Daniel 9:2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. Zechariah 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?” I will attend to you Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” 1 Samuel 2:21 So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD. Ruth 1:6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab. and confirm My promise Romans 15:8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, 1 Kings 8:56 “Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses. Hebrews 6:17-18 So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath. / Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged. to restore you to this place. Ezra 1:1-4 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: / “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. / Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem. … Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. Deuteronomy 30:3-5 then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. / Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there. / And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers. Isaiah 44:28 who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’” Treasury of Scripture For thus said the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. after. Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. Jeremiah 27:7,22 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him… 2 Chronicles 36:21-23 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years… I will. Jeremiah 24:6,7 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up… Jeremiah 32:42-44 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them… Zephaniah 2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. Jump to Previous Accomplished Babylon Causing Completed Effect Ended Established Fulfil Fulfill Fulness Good Inspect Perform Pity Promise Purpose Remember Seventy Surely Towards Visit WordJump to Next Accomplished Babylon Causing Completed Effect Ended Established Fulfil Fulfill Fulness Good Inspect Perform Pity Promise Purpose Remember Seventy Surely Towards Visit WordJeremiah 29 1. Jeremiah sends a letter to the captives in Babylon to be quiet there,8. and not to believe the dreams of their prophets; 10. and that they shall return with grace after seventy years. 15. He foretells the destruction of the rest for their disobedience. 20. He shows the fearful end of Ahab and Zedekiah, two false prophets. 24. Shemaiah writes a letter against Jeremiah. 30. Jeremiah foretells his doom. For this is what the LORD says: Jeremiah speaks with God’s authority, not his own, assuring the exiles that the coming promise is certain. 2Ki 19:32 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria:… “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, Judah’s exile under Babylon would last seventy years, beginning with the first deportations and ending when Cyrus of Persia permitted the Jewish people to return in 538 BC. The period marked God’s judgment on Judah’s rebellion while preserving a remnant for restoration. 2Ch 36:21-23 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days… I will attend to you God had not abandoned His people in exile. At the appointed time, He would act on their behalf and direct their return. Gen 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die,… and confirm My promise The Lord would fulfill His covenant promise to bring Judah back from captivity. His judgment would not cancel His purposes for Israel. Rom 15:8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant… to restore you to this place. God promised to return the exiles to Jerusalem and Judah, their ancestral land. The return under Persian rule and the rebuilding of the temple and city demonstrated the fulfillment of this promise. Ezr 1:1-4 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,… Persons / Places / Events 1. JeremiahA major prophet in the Old Testament, known for his messages of judgment and hope. He conveyed God's words to the people of Judah during a time of great turmoil. 2. Babylon The empire that conquered Judah and took many of its people into exile. Babylon represents both a literal place and a symbol of worldly power and oppression. 3. Seventy Years The prophesied duration of the Babylonian exile, a period of judgment and purification for the people of Judah. 4. The LORD (Yahweh) The covenant-keeping God of Israel, who promises restoration and hope even in the midst of judgment. 5. Exile The forced removal of the Jewish people from their homeland to Babylon, a significant event in Jewish history that shaped their identity and faith. Teaching Points God's Sovereignty and TimingGod's plans are precise and unfold according to His perfect timing. The seventy years were not arbitrary but part of His divine plan. Hope in the Midst of Judgment Even when facing consequences for sin, God offers hope and a future. His promises of restoration are sure. Faithfulness in Exile Believers are called to remain faithful and trust in God's promises, even when circumstances seem bleak. The Importance of Repentance The exile was a result of Israel's disobedience. True restoration begins with repentance and turning back to God. God's Unchanging Promises God's promises are reliable and unchanging. He is faithful to fulfill His word, as seen in the return from exile. Bible Study Questions and Answers 1. What is the meaning of Jeremiah 29:10?2. How does Jeremiah 29:10 demonstrate God's faithfulness to His promises? 3. What does the "seventy years" signify about God's timing and patience? 4. How can we trust God's plans during our own periods of waiting? 5. Connect Jeremiah 29:10 with other scriptures about God's restoration and hope. 6. How should Jeremiah 29:10 influence our perspective on enduring trials today? 7. What is the historical context of Jeremiah 29:10 regarding the Babylonian exile? 8. How does Jeremiah 29:10 reflect God's sovereignty and faithfulness? 9. What archaeological evidence supports the events described in Jeremiah 29:10? 10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 29? Verse 10. - Seventy years (see on Jeremiah 25:11). At Babylon; rather, for Babylon. A long period, such as seventy years, is appointed for Babylon "to enjoy" the fruits of her ambition; when this is over (comp. Genesis 15:13-16), God will pay heed to his people. Visit you. To "visit" frequently has the sense of "taking notice of," or "paying heed to" (e.g. Jeremiah 23:2). My good word. "Word," equivalent to "pro-raise;" the allusion is to Jeremiah 24:6. Jeremiah 29:10 assures the exiles—and us—that God’s discipline has a limit, His timetable is precise, and His promises are unwavering. After a literal seventy years in Babylon, He personally intervened, upheld His covenant, and brought His people home. The verse invites every believer to rest in the fact that when God sets a time, speaks a promise, and pledges His presence, fulfillment is guaranteed. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction this is what כֹה֙ (ḵōh) Adverb Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now the LORD יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel says: אָמַ֣ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say “When כִּ֠י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction Babylon’s לְבָבֶ֛ל (lə·ḇā·ḇel) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city seventy שִׁבְעִ֥ים (šiḇ·‘îm) Number - common plural Strong's 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number) years שָׁנָ֖ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8141: A year are complete, מְלֹ֧את (mə·lōṯ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of I will attend to אֶפְקֹ֣ד (’ep̄·qōḏ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6485: To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit you אֶתְכֶ֑ם (’eṯ·ḵem) Direct object marker | second person masculine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case and confirm וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י (wa·hă·qi·mō·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand My promise דְּבָרִ֣י (də·ḇā·rî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause to restore לְהָשִׁ֣יב (lə·hā·šîḇ) Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again you אֶתְכֶ֔ם (’eṯ·ḵem) Direct object marker | second person masculine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to this הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that place. הַמָּק֖וֹם (ham·mā·qō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition Additonal Resources Jeremiah 29:10 Blue Letter BibleJeremiah 29:10 Bible Gateway Jeremiah 29:10 Bible.com Jeremiah 29:10 NIV |
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