Jeremiah 29:1-3

International Standard Version

Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles

29 These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, ² after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials,^[a] the officials^[b] of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths left Jerusalem. ³ The letter was sent by Shaphan’s son Elasah and by Hilkiah’s son Gemariah, whom King Zedekiah of Judah sent to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in Babylon, and it said,