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Jeremiah 42
⁹ and said to them, "Thus says the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:
¹⁰ ’If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I will relent concerning the calamity that I have inflicted on you.
¹¹ Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,’ declares the Lord, ’for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.
¹² I will also show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil.
¹³ But if you are going to say, "We will not stay in this land," so as not to listen to the voice of the Lord your God,
¹⁴ saying, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there";
¹⁵ then in that case listen to the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there,
¹⁶ then the sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.
¹⁷ So all the men who set their mind to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence; and they will have no survivors or refugees from the calamity that I am going to bring on them."’"
¹⁸ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place no more."
¹⁹ The Lord has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, "Do not go into Egypt!" You should clearly understand that today I have testified against you.