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14 I will be there for you.’ That is what the Lord says. ‘I will bring you back from the nations and all the places where I sent you as prisoners. You will no longer have to live in those foreign places.’[a]

15 You may say, ‘The Lord has chosen prophets to bring his message to us here in Babylon.’ 16 But listen to what the Lord says about the people who are still here in Jerusalem. The enemy did not take them with you as prisoners to Babylon. That includes the king who now rules David's kingdom.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 29:14 Verses 10-14 repeat the promise in Jeremiah 25:12.
  2. 29:16 When King Nebuchadnezzar took King Jeconiah away as his prisoner, he chose Zedekiah to rule in Jerusalem. See Jeremiah 29:2-3.