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Jeremiah 29:12

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you - fulfilled , etc. When God designs mercy, He puts it into the hearts of His people to pray for the mercy designed. When such a spirit of prayer is poured out, it is a sure sign of coming mercy.

Go - to the temple and other places of prayer; contrasted with their previous sloth as to going to seek God.

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See also Jeremiah 29:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 29. THE FUTURE OF THE EXILES IN BABYLON (_c_. 595). Jeremiah sends a letter by royal messengers to tell the exiles in Babylon to settle down there for a lengthy stay, and not to be deceived b...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Not till after seventy years shall they return....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The MT. is awkward, as it stands. The LXX have merely "and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1064 GOD WILL BE FOUND OF SINCERE WORSHIPPERS Jeremiah 29:11. _I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YE SHALL GO AND PRAY UNTO ME— _Ye shall pray unto me more and more._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. _A word of hope for the captives_ (Jeremiah 29:11-14) TRANSLATION (11) For I know the plans which I am making for you (oracle of the LORD)plans of peace and not calamity, to give to you a future a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. Jeremiah's letter to the exiles. Release after seventy years....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL YE CALL UPON ME... — The words need no comment, but they cannot be passed over without dwelling on the infinite tenderness which they manifest in the prophet’s soul, the reflex of a like te...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ קְרָאתֶ֤ם אֹתִי֙ וַֽ הֲלַכְתֶּ֔ם וְ הִתְפּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER X CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EXILES Jeremiah 29:1 "Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire."- Jeremiah 29:22 NOTHING further is said about the pr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    As a result of this false prophesying, Jeremiah sent a letter to the exiles. It is evident that they also were disturbed. The letter instructed them, first, concerning their present position, advising...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to pause over these gracious expressions of the Lord. They are suited to the Lord's exercised family, in all ages, at all times, and under all the sorrows of their estate. Mark how m...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah pursues the same subject, even that the Jews, after having undergone the punishment allotted to them by God, would at length return to their own country and find God merciful, and hence learn...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    On the other hand the prophet comforts those who, by the judgment of God, were subjected to the yoke which He had imposed upon them. The Jews in Babylon should dwell in peace, quietly seeking the welf...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL YE CALL UPON ME,.... When the expected end is about to be given; when God intends and is about to bestow a mercy, he gives his people a spirit of prayer to ask for it; and even the promise...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. Ver. 12. _Then shall ye call upon me._] With mind and mouth, with spirit and speech, as Daniel did, Dan 9:3...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _After seventy years be accomplished at Babylon_ Hebrews, לפי מלאת שׁבעים שׁנה, literally, _At the mouth of the accomplishment of seventy years._ “And as the _mouth_ of a river, metaphorically, denote...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then shall ye call upon Me, in a realization of their sinfulness and guilt, AND YE SHALL GO AND PRAY UNTO ME, AND I WILL HEARKEN UNTO YOU, turning to them in the grace and mercy which He much prefers...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S LETTER TO THE EXILES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. The Contents of the Letter. Just as certain false prophets in Jerusalem had tried to arouse and maintain false hopes in the inhabitants of the ca...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-19 Let men beware how they call those prophets whom they choose after their own fancies, and how they consider their fancies and dreams to be revelations from God. False prophets flatter people in...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I will not only give you a temporal salvation and deliverance, and bring you into your own land, but you shall go thither with new hearts; you shall worship idols no more, but you shall worship me, an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 29:12 call H7121 (H8804) go H1980 (H8804) pray H6419 (H8694) listen H8085 (H8804)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH PROMISES THAT ONCE SEVENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED HIS PEOPLE WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN TO THEIR OWN LAND (JEREMIAH 29:10). Jeremiah 29:10 “For thus says YHWH, After seventy years are accomp...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S LETTER TO THE EXILES (JEREMIAH 29:1). Correspondence by letter was a constant feature of those days, and indicates that the world was not static (compare the prophetic letters from Shemaiah...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 29:10 I. We may describe every real affliction which comes upon the Christian as a captivity. To be in a condition which we should never voluntarily have preferred, or to be held back by the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message to the Jews of the first captivity. Action against false prophets. Destruction foretold. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeconiah, Elasah, Gemariah, Ahab, Zedekiah, Shemaiah,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 29:10. _After seventy years._ See Jeremiah 26:1. Zechariah fixes the captivity at the same number of years, and he flourished sometime after Jeremiah's death. No doubt the captivity was exact...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end._ THE THOUGHTS OF GOD TO HIS PEOPLE, PEACE AND NOT EVIL These words were...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This letter and its transmission are usually dated the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign (because of chap. Jeremiah 28:1), but Jeremiah 29:2...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Despised and rejected at home, Jeremiah turned his thoughts to those distant brethren in captivity, whom he had already likened to "good figs, very good" (Jeremiah 24:3, Jeremiah 24:5). He...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jeremiah sent this letter, chapter 29, to those Jews that were in Babylon. And, of course, this letter was sent to them and one of the chief of the princes that was in Babylon was Daniel. So Danie...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 9:3; Ezekiel 36:37; Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 65:24; Jeremiah 31:9

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