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I will not keep back a word from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Then they said to Jeremiah, May the L<font size="1">ORD</font> be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole message with which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God will send you to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Whether <i>it</i> is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Now at the end of ten days the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to Jeremiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>and said to them, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I will relent concerning the calamity that I have inflicted on you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-11.htm" target="_top"><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 the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>I will also show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-13.htm" target="_top"><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 the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-14.htm" target="_top"><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="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>then in that case listen to the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, the God of Israel, If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-16.htm" target="_top"><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 follow closely after you there <i>in</i> Egypt, and you will die there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>So all the men who set their mind to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence; and they will have no survivors or refugees from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>For thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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