Jeremiah 29:15
Good News Translation
"You say that the LORD has given you prophets in Babylonia.

New Revised Standard Version
Because you have said, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”—

Contemporary English Version
You feel secure, because you think I have sent prophets to speak for me in Babylonia.

New American Bible
As for your saying, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets here in Babylon”—

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:

Jeremiah 29:8,9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream: . . .

Jeremiah 28:1 And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying:

Ezekiel 1:1,3 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God. . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles
14And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive. 15Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:16For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and to all the people that dwell in this city, to your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:21
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son of Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in my name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your eyes.

Jeremiah 29:24
And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say:

Jeremiah 29:14
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