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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 42 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/42.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Jeremiah 42</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/41.htm" title="Jeremiah 41">◄</a> Jeremiah 42 <a href="../jeremiah/43.htm" title="Jeremiah 43">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="nb"><span class="v24_42_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.1" class="v24_42_1">1</span>Johanan, Jezaniah,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.42.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the other army officers, and everyone else in the group, came to me </span><span class="v24_42_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.2" class="v24_42_2">2</span>and said, “Please, Jeremiah, pray to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God for us. Judah used to have many people, but as you can see, only a few of us are left. </span><span class="v24_42_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.3" class="v24_42_3">3</span>Ask the <span class="nd">Lord</span> to tell us where he wants us to go and what he wants us to do.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_42_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.4" class="v24_42_4">4</span>“All right,” I answered, “I will pray to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God, and I will tell you everything he says.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_42_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.5" class="v24_42_5">5</span>They answered, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> himself will be our witness that we promise to do whatever he says, </span><span class="v24_42_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.6" class="v24_42_6">6</span>even if it isn't what we want to do. We will obey the <span class="nd">Lord</span> so that all will go well for us.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_42_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.7" class="v24_42_7">7</span>Ten days later, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave me an answer for </span><span class="v24_42_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.8" class="v24_42_8">8</span>Johanan, the officers, and the other people. So I called them together </span><span class="v24_42_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.9" class="v24_42_9">9</span>and told them that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God of Israel had said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_42_9">You asked Jeremiah to pray and find out what you should do. </span><span class="v24_42_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.10" class="v24_42_10">10</span>I am sorry that I had to punish you, and so I now tell you to stay here in Judah, where I will plant you and build you up, instead of tearing you down and uprooting you. </span><span class="v24_42_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.11" class="v24_42_11">11</span>Don't be afraid of the King of Babylonia. I will protect you from him, </span><span class="v24_42_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.12" class="v24_42_12">12</span>and I will even force him to have mercy on you and give back your farms.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_42_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.13" class="v24_42_13">13</span>But you might keep on saying, “We won't stay here in Judah, and we won't obey the <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God. </span><span class="v24_42_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.14" class="v24_42_14">14</span>We are going to Egypt, where there is plenty of food and no danger of war.”</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_42_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.15" class="v24_42_15">15</span>People of Judah, you survived when the Babylonian army attacked. Now you are planning to move to Egypt, and if you do go, this is what will happen. </span><span class="v24_42_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.16-Jer.42.17" class="v24_42_16">16-17</span>You are afraid of war, starvation, and disease here in Judah, but they will follow you to Egypt and kill you there. None of you will survive the disasters I will send.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_42_18"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.18" class="v24_42_18">18</span>I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, was angry with the people of Jerusalem and punished them. And if you go to Egypt, I will be angry and punish you the same way. You will never again see your homeland. People will be horrified at what I do to you, and they will use the name of your city as a curse word.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jeremiah Gives a Warning</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_42_19"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.19" class="v24_42_19">19</span>I told the people:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_42_19">You escaped the disaster that struck Judah, but now the <span class="nd">Lord</span> warns you to stay away from Egypt. </span><span class="v24_42_20"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.20" class="v24_42_20">20</span>You asked me to pray and find out what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God wants you to do, and you promised to obey him. But that was a terrible mistake, </span><span class="v24_42_21"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.21" class="v24_42_21">21</span>because now that I have given you the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s answer, you refuse to obey him. </span><span class="v24_42_22"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.42.22" class="v24_42_22">22</span>And so, you will die in Egypt from war, hunger, and disease.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">42.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jezaniah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah”; one ancient translation “Azariah son of Hoshaiah” (see also 43.2 and the note there).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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