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And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place no more. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, Do not go into Egypt! You should clearly understand that today I have testified against you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>For you have <i>only</i> deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, saying, Pray for us to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God; and whatever the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God says, tell us so, and we will do it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, even in whatever He has sent me to <i>tell</i> you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore you should now clearly understand that you will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence, in the place where you wish to go to reside. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/42.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/42.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in Egypt, and there you shall die. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/jeremiah/42.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />then it shall come to pass, that the sword which ye fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/42.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feel shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/42.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/42.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/42.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> then it hath come to pass, the sword that ye are afraid of, doth there overtake you, in the land of Egypt; and the hunger, because of which ye are sorrowful, doth there cleave after you in Egypt, and there ye die.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_ix_jeremiah_a_lesson.htm">Jeremiah, a Lesson for the Disappointed. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord."--Jeremiah i. 8. The Prophets were ever ungratefully treated by the Israelites, they were resisted, their warnings neglected, their good services forgotten. But there was this difference between the earlier and the later Prophets; the earlier lived and died in honour among their people,--in outward honour; though hated and thwarted by the wicked, they were exalted to high places, and ruled in the congregation. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_ix_jeremiah_a_lesson.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxi_the_carnal_mind.htm">"The Carnal Mind is Enmity against God for it is not Subject to the Law of God, Neither Indeed Can Be. So Then they that Are</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. s 7, 8.--"The carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." It is not the least of man's evils, that he knows not how evil he is, therefore the Searcher of the heart of man gives the most perfect account of it, Jer. xvii. 12. "The heart is deceitful above all things," as well as "desperately wicked," two things superlative and excessive in it, bordering upon an infiniteness, such <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxi_the_carnal_mind.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/jeremiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/42-16.htm">Jeremiah 42:16 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/42-16.htm">Jeremiah 42:16 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/42-16.htm">Jeremiah 42:16 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/42-16.htm">Jeremiah 42:16 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/42-16.htm">Jeremiah 42:16 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/42-16.htm">Jeremiah 42:16 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/jeremiah/42-16.htm">Jeremiah 42:16 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/42-15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 42:15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 42:15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/42-17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 42:17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 42:17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/jeremiah/42-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>