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Jeremiah 29:11

耶利米书 29:11

The Passage

'For I know the plans that I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans for peace and not for evil, to give you hope and a future.'

In the other language

耶和华说：我知道我向你们所怀的意念是赐平安的意念，不是降灾祸的意念，要叫你们末后有指望。

Theme

Hope and future

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Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

These words were spoken to people living in exile, not people whose difficulties were about to disappear. They do not give you a timetable for relief at work; they speak of peace, hope, and a future within a situation that required patient living. Pressure can narrow your attention until the next deadline feels like the whole of your life. This passage invites you to let hope have a wider horizon than today's demands. You can take your responsibilities seriously without treating every setback as a verdict on your future. Where has the pressure of this week made it difficult for you to imagine anything beyond it?

Carry thisToday's demands are not the whole horizon of your life.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

Hope is named here alongside peace, in words addressed to a people whose future lay beyond their immediate view. This passage does not disclose the future of your relationship or guarantee that it will become what you want. It does offer language for contemplating God's concern for peace rather than harm. As you learn to love, that distinction can help you examine your own intentions. You may sincerely want closeness while using pressure, withdrawal, or control to seek it. Loving better includes asking whether your choices respect the other person's freedom and wellbeing, alongside your own. This passage does not reveal your relationship's future. In what way might its words about God's concern for peace help you love with less pressure and more respect for the other person's freedom?

Carry thisLove seeks peace without making another person an outcome.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

Perhaps you are carrying an expectation that the coming weeks must unfold exactly as you imagined, and the thought of releasing it feels less like freedom than loss. This passage does not identify what you should let go of, but its words of peace, hope, and a future invite you to consider your burdens in God's presence. You can acknowledge what matters deeply to you without treating your preferred outcome as the only future worth receiving, or reading this promise as a guarantee that every difficulty will disappear. Hope is not certainty about the coming weeks, so what expectation could you hold more gently as you turn toward God?

Carry thisAn unfinished story need not be treated as a verdict.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

Stillness in a busy life is not directly addressed here, but these words offer hope amid what remains unfinished. You may be carrying more than you can settle today. The promise of peace gives you something to dwell with, rather than another task to complete. It does not provide a schedule or predict how your circumstances will unfold. You can pause without having your future worked out. For a moment, let the work waiting for you remain waiting. Bring your uncertainty into God's presence, without trying to turn it into an answer. These words speak of hope: where could you allow yourself a little room to rest today?

Carry thisThe next demand is not the whole of life.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Corinthians 10:2-6

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Jeremiah 29 — in context

5Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit.

6Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

7Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

8For thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel: Don’t let your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

9For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.

10For thus says the LORD, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

13You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

14I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

15Because you have said, the LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

16thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity;

17thus says the LORD of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.

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