Jeremiah 29:11

For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. ¹  ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you ²  a future filled with hope. ³ 

Job 23:13; Ps 33:11; Ps 40:5; Isa 40:1-46:13; Isa 46:10,11; Isa 55:8-12; Jer 3:12-19; Jer 30:18-22; Jer 31:1-33:26; La 3:26; Eze 34:11-31; Eze 36:1-37:28; Eze 39:1-29; Ho 2:14-23; Ho 3:5; Ho 14:2-9; Joe 2:28-32; Am 9:8-15; Mic 4:12; Mic 5:4-7; Mic 7:14-20; Zep 3:14-20; Zec 1:6; Zec 8:14,15; Zec 9:9-17; Zec 12:5-10; Zec 14:20,21; Re 14:8-14

¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “I know the plans that I am planning for you, oracle of the Lord, plans of well-being and not for harm to give to you….”

³ tn Or “the future you hope for”; Heb “a future and a hope.” This is a good example of hendiadys where two formally coordinated nouns (adjectives, verbs) convey a single idea where one of the terms functions as a qualifier of the other. For this figure see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 658-72. This example is discussed on p. 661.