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Behold, I am going to pray to Yahweh your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>message which Yahweh will answer you. I will not keep back a word from you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>message with which Yahweh your God will send you to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whether <i>it</i> is good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God to whom we are sending you, so that good may come to us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now it happened that at the end of ten days the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>commanders of the military forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and said to them, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before Him: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>relented of the calamity that I have done against you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are <i>now</i> fearing; do not be afraid of him,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will also show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and return you to your own soil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But if you are going to say, “We will not stay in this land,” so as not to listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>saying, “No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there,” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then now, listen to the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “If you really set your face to enter Egypt, and you will enter to sojourn there, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>then the sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>follow closely after you there <i>in</i> Egypt, and you will die there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So all the men who set their face to go to Egypt to sojourn there will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and they will have no survivors or <i>any who</i> escaped from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.”’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. 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"><b>19</b></a></span>Yahweh has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, “Do not go into Egypt!” You should clearly know that today I have testified against you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For you have <i>only</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>led yourselves astray; for it is you who sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, “Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, tell us so, and we will do it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So I have told you today, but you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, even according to all that He has sent me to <i>tell</i> you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So now, you should clearly know that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>princes</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>fall</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>word</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>word</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>princes</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>regret</i>, cf. 1 Sam 15:11, 29, 35<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>cling</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>acted errantly in your souls</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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