The New Bible Commentary (29:1–14 ‘Build Houses in Babylon’)
The story illustrates neatly the difference between the Lord’s thinking and human plans (Pr. 16:9; Is. 55:8). What seems to be the end of hope is but the end of tawdry dreams; with God there is always a real future. In it, there is willing and joyful communion with him, no longer hidden by human self-seeking
