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Jeremiah 29:10

What does Jeremiah 29:10 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 29:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Jeremiah 29:10 means

This verse provides the long-awaited promise of restoration, but with a clear timeline: "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." God reveals that their captivity in Babylon would last precisely seventy years. This specific duration was a fixed period for divine judgment and purification. Following this, God promised to act on their behalf, fulfilling His word of returning them to Jerusalem, giving them hope and a concrete future to anticipate.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

`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.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For 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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in bringing you back to this place.

Context

Following the immediate instructions for living in exile and the warnings against false prophets, this verse delivers the crucial long-term promise. It introduces the precise 70-year duration of the captivity, a vital piece of information that would shape the exiles' understanding of their future. This divinely appointed timeline directly counters the false prophets’ claims of a swift return, grounding the exiles’ hope in God’s precise plan.

v.9For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith Jehovah.

v.10This passage

v.11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.

  • Jeremiah 32:42

    For thus saith Jehovah: 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.

  • Zechariah 7:5

    Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

  • 2 Chronicles 36:21

    to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

  • Jeremiah 24:6

    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.

  • Zephaniah 2:7

    And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed their flocks thereupon; in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for Jehovah their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.

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