Jeremiah 29:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹For 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.

Jeremiah 29:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 55:8-12
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. …
Psalms 33:11
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Micah 4:12
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
Psalms 40:5
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Job 23:13
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Israel, Prophecies Concerning Lord Majesty Theology

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-14)

To make the people quiet and easy in their captivity, I. God takes them off from building upon the false foundation which their pretended prophets laid, Jer. 29:8, 9. They told them that their captivity should be short, and therefore that they must not think of taking root in Babylon, but be upon the wing to go back: “Now herein they deceive you,” says God; “they prophesy a lie to you, though they…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. I know--I alone; not the false prophets who know nothing of My purposes, though they pretend to know. thoughts ... I think--(Is 55:9). Glancing at the Jews who had no “thoughts of peace,” but only of “evil” (misfortune), because they could not conceive how deliverance could come to them. The moral malady of man is twofold--at one time vain confidence; then, when that is disappointed, despair.…