Jeremiah 42:9–22

⁹And said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me ^qto present your supplication before him; ¹⁰If ye will still abide in this land, then ^rwill I build you, and not pull you down, and I ^rwill plant you, and not pluck you up: for ^sI repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. ¹¹Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; ^tbe not afraid of him, saith the Lord: ^tfor I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. ¹²And I will shew mercies unto you, ^uthat he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. ^13vBut if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God, ¹⁴Saying, No; but ^wwe will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor ^xhear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: ¹⁵And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; ^xxIf ye wholly ^yset your faces to enter into Egypt, and ^zgo to sojourn there; ¹⁶Then it shall come to pass, that ^athe sword, ^bwhich ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and ^athe famine, whereof ye were afraid, ^†shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die. ^17†So shall it be with all the men that ^yset their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; ^cthey shall die ^aby the sword, ^aby the famine, and by the pestilence: and ^dnone of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. ¹⁸For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As ^emine 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 ^fye shall be ^fkan execration, and ^gjkan astonishment, and ^hijka curse, and ^bjkla reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. ¹⁹The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; ^xxGo ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have ^†admonished you this day. ²⁰For ^||ye dissembled in your hearts, ^mwhen ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, ^mPray for us unto the Lord our God; ⁿand according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it. ²¹And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor any thing ^ofor the which he hath sent me unto you. ²²Now therefore know certainly that ^cye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire ^||to go and to sojourn.