¹⁵Then hear now the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah! Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘If you ^qwholly ³set ^ryour faces to enter Egypt, and go to dwell there, ¹⁶then it shall be that the ^ssword which you feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; the famine of which you were afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die. ¹⁷So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. And ^tnone of them shall remain or escape from the disaster that I will bring upon them.’

¹⁸“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘As My anger and My fury have been ^upoured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And ^vyou shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.’

¹⁹“The Lord has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, ^w‘Do not go to Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have ⁴admonished you this day.

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Footnotes

3Or surely
4warned

Cross references

q Deut. 17:16; Jer. 44:12–14
r Luke 9:51
s Jer. 44:13, 27; Ezek. 11:8; Amos 9:1–4
t Jer. 44:14, 28
u 2 Chr. 36:16–19; Jer. 7:20
v Deut. 29:21; Is. 65:15; Jer. 18:16; 24:9; 26:6; 29:18, 22; 44:12
w Deut. 17:16; Is. 30:1–7