Jeremiah 29:12

THE MESSAGE

"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Hebrew Names Version
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

King James Version
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

English Standard Version
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

New American Standard Bible
'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

New Century Version
Then you will call my name. You will come to me and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Amplified Bible
'Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you.

World English Bible
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall you crie vnto mee, and ye shal go and pray vnto me, and I will heare you,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Berean Standard Bible
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Contemporary English Version
You will turn back to me and ask for help, and I will answer your prayers.

Complete Jewish Bible
When you call to me and pray to me, I will listen to you.

Darby Translation
And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;

Easy-to-Read Version
Then you will call my name. You will come to me and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

George Lamsa Translation
Then you shall call upon me and pray to me.

Good News Translation
Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me, and I will answer you.

Lexham English Bible
Then when you call me, and you come and pray to me, then I will listen to you.

Literal Translation
Then you shall call on Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shall crie vnto me, ye shal go & call vpo me, & I shal heare you.

American Standard Version
And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Bible in Basic English
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall call upon Me, and go, and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you.

King James Version (1611)
Then shall ye call vpon me, and ye shall goe and pray vnto mee, and I will hearken vnto you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall crye vnto me, ye shall go and call vpon me, and I wyll heare you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thus saith the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk it; and thou shalt by no means be cleared:

English Revised Version
And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye schulen clepe me to help, and ye schulen go, and schulen worschipe me, and Y schal here you;

Update Bible Version
And you shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you.

New English Translation
When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

New King James Version
Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

New Living Translation
In those days when you pray, I will listen.

New Life Bible
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

New Revised Standard
Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall ye call upon me, - And go and pray unto me, - And I will hearken unto you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall call upon me, and you shall go. and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.

Revised Standard Version
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Young's Literal Translation
`And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Contextual Overview

⁸Yes. Believe it or not, this is the Message from God -of-the-Angel-Armies, Israel's God: "Don't let all those so-called preachers and know-it-alls who are all over the place there take you in with their lies. Don't pay any attention to the fantasies they keep coming up with to please you. They're a bunch of liars preaching lies—and claiming I sent them! I never sent them, believe me." God 's Decree! ¹⁰This is God 's Word on the subject: "As soon as Babylon's seventy years are up and not a day before, I'll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. ¹² "When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen. ¹³"When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed." God 's Decree. "I'll turn things around for you. I'll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you"— God 's Decree—"bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 31:9, Jeremiah 33:3, Nehemiah 2:4-20, Psalms 10:17, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 102:16, Psalms 102:17, Isaiah 30:19, Isaiah 65:24, Ezekiel 36:37, Daniel 9:3-19, Zechariah 13:9, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:4 - called Leviticus 26:39 - shall pine Deuteronomy 4:29 - But if Judges 3:15 - cried unto 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return 2 Chronicles 6:38 - return 2 Chronicles 14:7 - we have sought 2 Chronicles 15:2 - if ye seek him 2 Chronicles 15:12 - seek 2 Chronicles 30:9 - so that they shall 2 Chronicles 33:13 - he was entreated Ezra 8:23 - besought Psalms 3:4 - I cried Psalms 27:8 - Thy Psalms 65:2 - thou Psalms 91:15 - He shall Psalms 107:6 - Then Psalms 145:18 - call upon Isaiah 55:6 - Seek Isaiah 58:9 - shalt thou Jeremiah 24:7 - for they Jeremiah 50:4 - seek the Jeremiah 51:50 - remember Hosea 5:15 - till Hosea 10:12 - time Joel 2:12 - turn Amos 5:4 - Seek Zephaniah 2:3 - Seek ye Zechariah 1:3 - and Matthew 6:5 - when Luke 11:9 - seek Luke 18:1 - that Luke 18:39 - but Acts 9:11 - for Romans 8:27 - according Romans 12:12 - continuing James 1:5 - let James 5:16 - The effectual 1 John 3:22 - whatsoever 1 John 5:14 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."

Genesis 24:28
And the girl was off and running, telling everyone in her mother's house what had happened.

Genesis 29:14
Laban said, "You're family! My flesh and blood!" When Jacob had been with him for a month, Laban said, "Just because you're my nephew, you shouldn't work for me for nothing. Tell me what you want to be paid. What's a fair wage?"

Genesis 29:16
Now Laban had two daughters; Leah was the older and Rachel the younger. Leah had nice eyes, but Rachel was stunningly beautiful. And it was Rachel that Jacob loved. So Jacob answered, "I will work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall ye call upon me,.... When the expected end is about to be given; when God intends and is about to bestow a mercy, he gives his people a spirit of prayer to ask for it; and even the promise of it is a considerable argument to encourage and engage more to pray for it:

and ye shall go and pray unto me: walk in my ways; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech; or rather ye shall go into your private closets, or into those public places where prayer was wont to be made, and there put up your petitions; or it may be the meaning is, that they should continue praying unto him; should pray without ceasing, until they enjoyed the blessing, and had the expected end given them:

and I will hearken unto you: God is a God hearing prayer; he listens to the requests of his people, and answers them in his own time and way; which is no small encouragement to pray unto him.