Jeremiah 29:1-7
You can sponsor this page of The Text This Week
- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- Hebrew Interlinear Bible, WLCv, WLC5, CHES, AV.
- The Bible Gateway: NRSV, RSV, NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Hebrew text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and Comparative
Texts:
- Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
- From the Geneva Notes (c.1599).
- The prophet does not speak this for the affection that he bore to the tyrant, but that they should pray for the common rest and quietness that their troubles might not be increased, and that they might with more patience and less grief wait for the time of their deliverance, which God had appointed most certain: for not only the Israelites but all the world yea and the insensible creatures would rejoice when these tyrants would be destroyed, as in Isa 24:4."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary. (c. 1700)
- The zealous servant of the Lord will use every means to profit those who are far off, as well as those who are near him."
- From Wesley's
Notes. John Wesley (1703-1791).
- Jeremiah's letter to the captives in Babylon, to be quiet there, ver. 1 - 7. Not to believe false prophets; nor expect to return 'till after fifty years."
- From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
-
Commentary,
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7, Wil Gafney, Preaching
This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- "It was for all intents and purposes the end of the world."
-
"Planting Life," commentary by Kate Huey, ucc.org: Sermon
Seeds, lectionary citations, weekly theme, lectionary texts, bulletin
back page, 2010.
- Audrey West says that 'the people of God can bloom where they are planted,' and she echoes something we?re hearing a lot these days, after almost ten years of living under the threat of terrorism, and several years of economic 'adjustments': Jeremiah, she says, instructs the people, and us, to 'create a new ?normal? as they learn to live into this reality, making it their home.'"
- Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
-
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure,
Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting
Church in Australia.
- "I am unsure whether one can read into the chapter a 'social resistance', but certainly agree on a non-violent acceptance of the reality."
-
Jeremiah 29:1-7,
The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
- "Real hope for the people, according to Jeremiah, lay not in some immediate relief from social and communal death, but in living through that experience as faithful people, awaiting the Lord?s 'future with hope'."
-
"Don't Shoot
the Messenger," Tony Jones, The Hardest Question, 2010.
-
"What if you?re a prophet, but the message that God gives you to proclaim isn?t revolutionary?"
-
- Lectionary Commentary, Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7, 14th Sunday After Pentecost (Year C), by Dennis Bratcher at Christian Resource Institute.
-
- "Change one word in Jeremiah?s charge, and it becomes a very real challenge for my congregation: 'Seek the shalom of the neighborhood where I have sent you. . . . and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its shalom you will find your shalom.'"
- "The New Urbanism," study guide for adults, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Cities and Towns," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2006.
-
"Strange People, Strange Places: The Geography of Salvation,"
- "When have you discerned God working in strange places or people?"
-
Commentary,
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7, Wil Gafney, Preaching
This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- Articles & Background:
-
"Biblical Theology and the Culture War," David VanDrunen, Kerux, 1996.
-
"On Exile:
Yoder, Said, and a Theology of Land and Return," Alain Epp Weaver,
CrossCurrents, 2003.
-
"How should Palestinian exile, and exile more generally, be understood theologically? How should Christians understand the dreams of many exiles, dreams which often appear hopeless, of return to their homes?"
-
-
-
Recommended articles from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are linked below. ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
-
Bundang, Rachel A.R., "Home As Memory, Metaphor, and Promise in Asian/Pacific American Religious Experience," Semeia, 2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -
Holladay, William L., "God Writes a Rude Letter (Jeremiah 29:1-23)," Biblical Archaeologist, 1983.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -
Overholt, Thomas W., "Jeremiah 27-29:The Question of False Prophecy," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1967.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -
Smith, Daniel L., "Jeremiah As Prophet of Nonviolent Resistance," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1989.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -
Smoak, Jeremy D., "Building Houses and Planting Vineyards: The Early Inner-Biblical Discourse on an Ancient Israelite Wartime Curse," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2008.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -
Weaver, Alain Epp, "On Exile: Yoder, Said, and a Theology of Land and Return," Cross Currents, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -
Wilson, Gerald H., "The Prayer of Daniel 9: Reflection on Jeremiah 29," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1990.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -
Yates, Gary E., "Narrative Parallelism and the 'Jehoiakim Frame': A Reading Strategy for Jeremiah 26-45," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
-
- Sermons:
- "Jeremiah's Letter to Exiles in Babylon," Rev. Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson, Medicine Hat, Alberta.
- Reviews:
- With Children:
- "Children's Literature: A Resource for Ministry," Connections: Together in Pinecone Path by Thomas F. Yezerski and Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; Union Presbyterian Seminary, 2010.
- Drama:
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Hymns and Music:
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Jeremiah
