Jeremiah 29:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 29:28 : 28 For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'This captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.'
  • Ezek 28:26 : 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those who despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
  • Jer 29:10 : 10 For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 29:28
    84%

    28 For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'This captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.'

  • Jer 29:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    6 Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

    7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it: for in its peace you will have peace.

  • Isa 65:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    22 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

  • Ps 107:36-37
    2 verses
    77%

    36 And there he makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

    37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

  • Jer 31:5
    75%

    5 You shall yet plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

  • Lev 25:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

    20 And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

  • Amos 9:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.

    15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Deut 8:12
    74%

    12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein;

  • Prov 24:27
    74%

    27 Prepare your work outside, and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward build your house.

  • Jer 35:7
    74%

    7 Neither shall you build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land where you are strangers.

  • Deut 6:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 And it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and good cities, which you did not build,

    11 And houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and wells dug, which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant; when you have eaten and are full;

  • Lev 26:5
    73%

    5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

  • Josh 24:13
    72%

    13 And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat from vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.

  • Eccl 2:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 I made great works; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

    5 I made gardens and orchards for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    72%

    29 And this shall be a sign to you: you shall eat this year what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; and in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

  • Jer 29:4
    72%

    4 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

    2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

  • Isa 5:9
    72%

    9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

  • Isa 37:30
    71%

    30 And this shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself; and the second year what springs of the same: and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • Zeph 1:13
    71%

    13 Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • Jer 32:15
    71%

    15 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

  • Jer 31:24
    71%

    24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all its cities together, farmers, and those who go forth with flocks.

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8 Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

  • Isa 54:2
    71%

    2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;

  • Lev 19:25
    71%

    25 And in the fifth year you shall eat of its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I am the LORD your God.

  • Jer 35:9
    71%

    9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: nor have vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • Deut 28:39
    71%

    39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

  • Hag 1:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?

    5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • Deut 3:19
    70%

    19 But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (for I know that you have much livestock), shall remain in your cities which I have given you;

  • Num 32:24
    70%

    24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep; and do what you have said.

  • Ezek 36:10
    70%

    10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built:

  • Jer 29:20
    70%

    20 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Ezek 28:26
    70%

    26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those who despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

  • Nah 3:14
    70%

    14 Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

  • Jer 42:10
    70%

    10 If you will still abide in this land, then I will build you up, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent of the evil that I have done unto you.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Jer 30:18
    70%

    18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be rebuilt on its own ruins, and the palace shall remain as it used to be.

  • Gen 2:15
    70%

    15 And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

  • Deut 20:6
    70%

    6 And what man is he who has planted a vineyard and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

  • Jer 40:10
    69%

    10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, who will come to us: but you, gather wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.