Jeremiah 29:15
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Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:

Jeremiah 29:8,9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream: . . .

Jeremiah 28:1 And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying:

Ezekiel 1:1,3 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God. . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles
14And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive. 15Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:16For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and to all the people that dwell in this city, to your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:21
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son of Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in my name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your eyes.

Jeremiah 29:24
And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say:

Lexicon
Because
כִּ֖י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

you may say,
אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם (’ă·mar·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“The LORD
יְהוָ֛ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

has raised up
הֵקִ֨ים (hê·qîm)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

for us
לָ֧נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

prophets
נְבִאִ֖ים (nə·ḇi·’îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet

in Babylon,”
בָּבֶֽלָה׃ (bā·ḇe·lāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city


Additional Translations
Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

whereas ye said, The Lord has appointed for us prophets in Babylon:

If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

For ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.

Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us prophets in Babylon;

Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

'Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,
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