Then they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us (42:5)

Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God (42:6)

And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah (42:7)

Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, (42:8)

And said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him; (42:9)

If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you (42:10)

Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I [am] with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand (42:11)

And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land (42:12)

But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God, (42:13)

Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: (42:14)

And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; (42:15)

Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die (42:16)

So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them (42:17)

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more (42:18)

The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day (42:19)

For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do [it] (42:20)

And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor any [thing] for the which he hath sent me unto you (42:21)

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn (42:22)

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