| 1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least
even unto the greatest, came near, 2 and said unto Jeremiah the prophet,
Let, we pray thee, our supplication be presented before thee, and pray for us
unto Jehovah thy God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of
many, as thine eyes do behold us: 3 that Jehovah thy God may show us the
way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do. 4 Then
Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray
unto Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass that
whatsoever thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will
keep nothing back from you. 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a
true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all the word
wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us. 6 Whether it be good, or
whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we
send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Jehovah our
God. 7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of Jehovah came
unto Jeremiah. 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, and all the people from the least
even to the greatest, 9 and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him:
10 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. 11 Be not afraid of the king of
Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah: for I am
with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. 12 And I will
grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to
your own land. 13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so that
ye obey not the voice of Jehovah your God, 14 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: 15 now
therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus saith Jehovah
of hosts, the God of Israel, If ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt,
and go to sojourn there; 16 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. 17 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. 18 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath 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.
19 Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into
Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day. 20 For ye
have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye sent me unto Jehovah
your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and according unto all
that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it:
21 and I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the
voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which he hath sent me unto you.
22 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 to
sojourn there.
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