Jeremiah 29:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 29:28 : 28 For he has sent to us in Babylon saying, The time will be long: go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them.
  • Ezek 28:26 : 26 And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.
  • Jer 29:10 : 10 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 29:28
    84%

    28 For he has sent to us in Babylon saying, The time will be long: go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them.

  • Jer 29:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    6 Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

    7 And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.

  • Isa 65:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21 And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.

    22 They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

  • Ps 107:36-37
    2 verses
    77%

    36 And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;

    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Jer 31:5
    75%

    5 Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

  • Lev 25:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

    20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

  • Amos 9:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.

    15 And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Deut 8:12
    74%

    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • Prov 24:27
    74%

    27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

  • Jer 35:7
    74%

    7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

  • Deut 6:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Lev 26:5
    73%

    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • Josh 24:13
    72%

    13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

  • Eccl 2:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

    5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    72%

    29 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

  • Jer 29:4
    72%

    4 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said to all those whom I have taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon:

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

    2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

  • Isa 5:9
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    9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

  • Isa 37:30
    71%

    30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.

  • Zeph 1:13
    71%

    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Jer 32:15
    71%

    15 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land.

  • Jer 31:24
    71%

    24 And Judah and all its towns will be living there together; the farmers and those who go about with flocks.

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

  • Isa 54:2
    71%

    2 Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

  • Lev 19:25
    71%

    25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Jer 35:9
    71%

    9 Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

  • Deut 28:39
    71%

    39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • Hag 1:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

    5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

  • Deut 3:19
    70%

    19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

  • Num 32:24
    70%

    24 So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

  • Ezek 36:10
    70%

    10 And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;

  • Jer 29:20
    70%

    20 And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Ezek 28:26
    70%

    26 And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.

  • Nah 3:14
    70%

    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Jer 42:10
    70%

    10 If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Jer 30:18
    70%

    18 The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.

  • Gen 2:15
    70%

    15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

  • Deut 20:6
    70%

    6 Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

  • Jer 40:10
    69%

    10 As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.