Jeremiah 29:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 29:28 : 28 For he has even sent a message to us here in Babylon. He wrote and told us,“You will be there a long time. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.”’”
  • Ezek 28:26 : 26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
  • Jer 29:10 : 10 “For the LORD says,‘Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule are over will I again take up consideration for you. Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore you to your homeland.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 29:28
    84%

    28For he has even sent a message to us here in Babylon. He wrote and told us,“You will be there a long time. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.”’”

  • Jer 29:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    6Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

    7Work to see that the city where I sent you as exiles enjoys peace and prosperity. Pray to the LORD for it. For as it prospers you will prosper.’

  • Isa 65:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    22No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.

  • Ps 107:36-37
    2 verses
    77%

    36He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Jer 31:5
    75%

    5Once again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. Those who plant them will once again enjoy their fruit.

  • Lev 25:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19“‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, and you may live securely in the land.

    20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

  • Amos 9:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14I will bring back my people, Israel; they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble and settle down. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; they will grow orchards and eat the fruit they produce.

    15I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,”says the LORD your God.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Deut 8:12
    74%

    12When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

  • Prov 24:27
    74%

    27Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

  • Jer 35:7
    74%

    7Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’

  • Deut 6:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

    11houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,

  • Lev 26:5
    73%

    5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

  • Josh 24:13
    72%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Eccl 2:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4Futility of Materialism I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

    5I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    72%

    29This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

  • Jer 29:4
    72%

    4“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to all those he sent into exile to Babylon from Jerusalem,

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

    2You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

  • Isa 5:9
    72%

    9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

  • Isa 37:30
    71%

    30“This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

  • Zeph 1:13
    71%

    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Jer 32:15
    71%

    15For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,“Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”’

  • Jer 31:24
    71%

    24The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.

  • Isa 54:2
    71%

    2Make your tent larger, stretch your tent curtains farther out! Spare no effort, lengthen your ropes, and pound your stakes deep.

  • Lev 19:25
    71%

    25Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the LORD your God.

  • Jer 35:9
    71%

    9We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

  • Deut 28:39
    71%

    39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

  • Hag 1:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4“Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?

    5Here then, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

  • Deut 3:19
    70%

    19But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

  • Num 32:24
    70%

    24So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do.”

  • Ezek 36:10
    70%

    10I will multiply your people– the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

  • Jer 29:20
    70%

    20‘So pay attention to the LORD’s message, all you exiles whom I have sent to Babylon from Jerusalem.’

  • Ezek 28:26
    70%

    26They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”

  • Nah 3:14
    70%

    14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

  • Jer 42:10
    70%

    10‘If you will just stay in this land, I will build you up. I will not tear you down. I will firmly plant you. I will not uproot you. For I am filled with sorrow because of the disaster that I have brought on you.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • Jer 30:18
    70%

    18The Lord Will Restore Israel and Judah The LORD says,“I will restore the ruined houses of the descendants of Jacob. I will show compassion on their ruined homes. Every city will be rebuilt on its former ruins. Every fortified dwelling will occupy its traditional site.

  • Gen 2:15
    70%

    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • Deut 20:6
    70%

    6Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

  • Jer 40:10
    69%

    10I for my part will stay at Mizpah to represent you before the Babylonians whenever they come to us. You for your part go ahead and harvest the wine, the dates, the figs, and the olive oil, and store them in jars. Go ahead and settle down in the towns that you have taken over.”