Jeremiah 29:1-32
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carriedinto exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:
“Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
“words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either,” declares the Lord. Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
The exiles to whom Jeremiah writes are the captives deported with King Jehoachin, among them Ezekiel.
Jeremiah advises the exiles to settle down and live a normal life; the exile will last 70 years. Then they will return. But even from Babylon his enemies try to stir up trouble for him.
Why?
The exile to Babylon is the judgment to Israelite, but exile was blessed fro they are the chosen one. 70 years later they will return to Jerusalem, so the Lord let them live normal life.
Hear the word of the Lord is the best and only way to survive on the world.
Mary and increase the number there: for when they return to Jerusalem they have more people to settle down in the land.
How?
Hear the word of the Lord with all my heart. It is the only way to live and prosper in my life.
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