⁹He said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition,^y says:^z ¹⁰‘If you stay in this land,^a I will build^b you up and not tear you down; I will plant^c you and not uproot you,^d for I have relented concerning the disaster I have inflicted on you.^e ¹¹Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon,^f whom you now fear.^g Do not be afraid of him, declares the Lord, for I am with you and will save^h you and deliver you from his hands.ⁱ ¹²I will show you compassion^j so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your land.’^k

¹³“However, if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and so disobey^l the Lord your God, ¹⁴and if you say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt,^m where we will not see war or hear the trumpetⁿ or be hungry for bread,’^o ¹⁵then hear the word of the Lord,^p you remnant of Judah. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and you do go to settle there, ¹⁶then the sword^q you fear^r will overtake you there, and the famine^s you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die.^t ¹⁷Indeed, all who are determined to go to Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, famine and plague;^u not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’ ¹⁸This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath^v have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem,^w so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse^b^x and an object of horror,^y a curse^c and an object of reproach;^z you will never see this place again.’^a

¹⁹“Remnant^b of Judah, the Lord has told you, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’^c Be sure of this: I warn you today ²⁰that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.’^d ²¹I have told you today, but you still have not obeyed the Lord your God in all he sent me to tell you.^e ²²So now, be sure of this: You will die by the sword, famine^f and plague^g in the place where you want to go to settle.”^h

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Footnotes

bThat is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.
cThat is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.

Cross references

yver 2
z 2 Ki 22:15
a Jer 43:4
bSee Jer 24:6
cSee Dt 30:9
dSee Dt 29:28; Ecc 3:2; Jer 45:4; Eze 36:36; Da 11:4
eSee 2 Ch 34:24; Isa 30:26; See Jer 18:8
f Jer 27:11
gSee Nu 14:9; See 1 Sa 15:24; Ps 23:4; Mt 10:28; 2 Ti 1:7
h Ps 18:27; 69:35; See 119:94; See Isa 63:1; Heb 7:25
iSee Ps 3:7; See Pr 20:22; See Jer 1:8; Ro 8:31
jSee Ex 3:21; See 2 Sa 24:14; 2 Co 1:3
kSee Ge 31:3; See Ne 1:9; Ps 106:44–46
lSee Dt 11:28
m Nu 11:4–5; See Dt 17:16; See Isa 30:2
nSee Jos 6:20; See Mt 24:31
oSee Dt 8:3; 1 Sa 2:5; Pr 10:3; Isa 65:13; Mt 4:2–4
p Jer 44:24
qSee Lev 26:33; Eze 11:8; 14:17
rSee Jer 41:18
sSee Ge 41:55
tSee Ge 2:17; 2 Ch 25:4; See Job 21:20; Eze 3:19; 18:4
uver 22; See Jer 21:7; 44:13
v Dt 29:18–20; See 2 Ch 12:7
wSee 2 Ch 36:19; Jer 39:1–9
xSee Nu 5:27; See Jer 25:18
ySee Dt 28:25, 37
zSee Ps 44:13
aSee Jer 22:10
b Jer 40:15
cSee ver 6; Dt 17:16; Isa 30:7; Jer 43:2; 44:16
dver 2; Eze 14:7–8
eSee Ex 24:7; Jer 40:3; Eze 2:7; 12:2; Zec 7:11–12
fSee Isa 1:28
gSee ver 17; Jer 24:10; Eze 6:11
hSee Jer 15:2; Hos 9:6