13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Other Translations of Jeremiah 29:13

King James Version

13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

English Standard Version

13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

The Message

13 "When you come looking for me, you'll find me.

New King James Version

13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

New Living Translation

13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 29:13

Commentary on Jeremiah 29:8-19

(Read Jeremiah 29:8-19)

Let men beware how they call those prophets whom they choose after their own fancies, and how they consider their fancies and dreams to be revelations from God. False prophets flatter people in their sins, because they love to be flattered; and they speak smoothly to their prophets, that their prophets may speak smoothly to them. God promises that they should return after seventy years were accomplished. By this it appears, that the seventy years of the captivity are not to be reckoned from the last captivity, but the first. It will be the bringing to pass of God's good word to them. This shall form God's purposes. We often do not know our own minds, but the Lord is never at an uncertainty. We are sometimes ready to fear that God's designs are all against us; but as to his own people, even that which seems evil, is for good. He will give them, not the expectations of their fears, or the expectations of their fancies, but the expectations of their faith; the end he has promised, which will be the best for them. When the Lord pours out an especial spirit of prayer, it is a good sign that he is coming toward us in mercy. Promises are given to quicken and encourage prayer. He never said, Seek ye me in vain. Those who remained at Jerusalem would be utterly destroyed, notwithstanding what the false prophets said to the contrary. The reason has often been given, and it justifies the eternal ruin of impenitent sinners; Because they have not hearkened to my words; I called, but they refused.