Jeremiah 29

Jeremiah sends a crucial letter to the exiles in Babylon (including the priests and prophets). God commands the exiles to settle down and seek the welfare of the city where they have been exiled. He tells them not to believe the false prophets who say the captivity will be short. God gives them the famous promise: "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." God promises to restore them after seventy years in Babylon.